We use individual level data covering 30 mostly post-communist and developing countries which account for over a fifth of the worldwide immigrant stock to assess the impact of risk aversion on the willingness to migrate. Consistent with theories of individual level migration decisions, risk...

The article explores the legislative and regulatory responses to the global financial crisis, from a US-EU comparative perspective, focusing on the measures dealing with banks' and financial intermediaries' distress. A dual-stage approach in both legal systems is identified: the first, aiming to...

Our article argues that the structure of the U.S. economy had already been damaged by the political promotion of disastrous trade deals.The trade deals caused the American economy to bifurcate into a component of big companies that benefit from global trade, and the rest of the economy that is...