The European Community is about to enlarge its de facto constitution by a fundamental rights charter. It is intended to become legally binding, at least in the long run. If it is, it will profoundly change the political opportunity structure between the Community and its Member States, among the...

The European Commission is working on a revision of its Guidelines on Research and Development Agreements. On this occasion, this note surveys the existing experimental evidence. Experiments add a number of additional arguments to the normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller...

The European Commission is working on a revision of its Guidelines on Research and Development Agreements. On this occasion, this note surveys the existing experimental evidence. Experiments add a number of additional arguments to the normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller...

Globalisation can mean one of four things: a considerable degree of regulatory competition; a geographically relevant market transgressing national and regional borders; the transfer of significant regulatory power to supranational entities; the public perception that nation states have lost a...

Globalisation can mean one of four things: a considerable degree of regulatory competition; a geographically relevant market transgressing national and regional borders; the transfer of significant regulatory power to supranational entities; the public perception that nation states have lost a...