The new Multiannual Financial Framework of the European Union for 2014-2020 a comment (by Sándor Richter; pp. 1-3) Keywords financial framework Countries covered EU Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Labour costs, external competitiveness and economic growth in new EU member states (by...

Europe must return to the Delors agenda of industrial policy and an active European role in the globalization process and a social welfare state to manage the multiple tasks of integration and social cohesion. In the light of our results, European policy-making must dare finally to take the...

For some years now, the Happy Planet Organization presents the so-called ‘Happy Planet Index’ (HPI), which is an index of measuring the trade-off between ecological footprint data and life quality (Happy Life Years, HLYE). Costa Rica emerges from these comparisons as the world’s ‘best...

This article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental performance in the world system. In multiple standard OLS regression models, we test the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labor and services, on the...

How effective are all those billions paid out by the Commission for the Lisbon process in the individual Member States? We apply regression analysis to measure the long-term structural budget problem of the European Union, often called "revenue problem," estimating which rich countries are above...

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the economic profession, most notably, Barro, 2004 to...