Im Hinblick auf die Sicherung des europäischen Binnenmarktes ist die Vermeidung von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch staatliche Beihilfen von großer Bedeutung. Der Verfasser untersucht und beurteilt die Politik der Kommission in diesem Bereich anhand allokationstheoretischer und...

What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by German-American groups and associations in the early twentieth century, before and after state-sponsored suppression of them that coincided with U.S. entry to...

This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The applied econometric methodology compares Portuguese drug-related variables with the ones extracted from a convex combination of similar European countries. The results suggest that a...

Each year, 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic accidents in the United States, while psychoactive drugs are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic accidents. We investigate whether state parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have the unintended benefit of reducing...