Departing from the holistic, cross-national approach of much of the previous research into public opinion on European integration, this article offers a comparative analysis of French and British public opinion on the EU in the post-Maastricht era. In particular, it examines the effects of...

Most previous research on efficiency in banking takes a regulatory perspective. In contrast, this paper investigates the empirical relation between efficiency and profitability in five large economies of the European Union during the period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence concerning wage differentials and the existence of gender pay discrimination in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used the stochastic frontier approach as an alternative...