This study investigates the effect of the changes in economic policy uncertainty in Europe on the performance of stock markets in the European Union, Croatia, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. Based on the analyses of monthly returns on the major stock market indices in these...

Countries can reduce global emissions by reducing own consumption since they are linked to the total value of consumption world wide. Two effects are at issue: a utility loss from forgone consumption and a utility gain from lowered temperature change. It is thus unclear whether own country...

There is a widespread consensus that trade policy reforms in the successor states of the former Soviet Union in general and in Russia in particular are subject to major obstacles which are larger than in Central and Eastern European transformation countries. The following paper discusses some...