The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises. This book addresses the latter and stresses a major shift in most countries toward a better understanding of financial stability and how it can be...

SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do Europeans age? Under which circumstances do older people and their families live, how healthy and active are they, and how did the crisis affect them? The authors of...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: European Integration and the Transformation of Masculine Rule in the Countryside -- 1. Studying Masculine Rule in the Decentered European State -- 2. Masculine Rules and Their Transformation at the European Level: The CAP and Rural Development...

Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Definitions -- 1.3 Toward the Euro -- 1.4 Diversity in a United Europe -- 1.5 Different Contexts for Enterprise -- Chapter 2 Austria -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Historical...

A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the EU today: Why is the 'new' EU so much poorer than the 'old', and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks...

Cover -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- COUNTRY COVERAGE BY REGION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 NORMAL HOURS LIMITS -- Introduction -- Weekly limits -- Daily limits -- 2 OVERTIME WORK -- Introduction -- Criteria for overtime work -- Prohibitions and limitations on overtime...

In this book leading financial professionals and academics examine the prospects for the European single currency. The impact of the Euro is assessed in terms of risks and opportunities for financial intermediaries, challenges for monetary and supervisory authorities and issues for portfolio...