This paper interprets the GDP growth experienced by the economies of the European Union in the perspective of the growth and the agglomeration models. The objective consists in understanding to what extent the growth and convergence paths followed by Europe during the last decades of economic...

We examine experimentally individual preferences for redistributions in the US, Italy, and Norway. We decompose demand for redistribution due to luck vis-à-vis individual merit, and study how they are affected by individual and social characteristics. Experimental subjects made four different...

In Europe, the creation of interregional policy institutions is almost complete in the monetary domain, whereas in the fiscal domain policy institutions are still those inherited from national states albeit strictly constrained by a set of supernational rules. This apparent mismatch between...

The aim of this paper is to assess preferences with respect to fiscal federalism in EU member-states. In particular, we address the question of whether each EU country would - if the decision were taken by "majority voting" - or should - if the decision were taken by a social planner - favour...