The past decade has shown a rising popularity of the notion of the knowledge-based economy. In Europe this has led to important political paradigms such as the Lisbon Accord and the Barcelona targets, which have become signposts for R&D policy in the EU. The relationship between knowledge and...

Against the background of increasing financial depth and international financial integration, not least in the EU, the trend towards analyzing financial system policy in fiscal terms is reviewed. Implicit and explicit taxation of the financial system has generated substantial ? though now...

The Stern Review added balanced growth equivalences (BGE) to the economic climate change research agenda. We first propose rigorous definitions of the BGE for multiple regions and under uncertainty. We show that the change in the BGE is independent of the assumed scenario of per capita income....