The Bologna Process (BP) has induced a remarkable amount of structural higher education policy change in its participating countries. From a program-theoretical perspective, one of the main benefits associated with these changes is thought to be increased student mobility between participating...

The Bologna Process (BP) has induced a remarkable amount of structural higher education policy change in its participating countries. From a program-theoretical perspective, one of the main benefits associated with these changes is thought to be increased student mobility between participating...

Eine der Funktionsbedingungen für Kassenwettbewerb ist, dass Risikoselektion unterbundenwird. Denn Gegenstand des Kassenwettbewerbs sollen nicht bestimmte Merkmale vonVersicherten sein (z.B. der Gesundheitszustand), vielmehr sollen die Anreize zur Verbesserungder Qualität und Effizienz der...

The current financial crisis has brought Europe to a critical juncture. In this paper, we map the fiscally United States of Europe. We simulate an optimal EU-wide income tax and calculate the implied cross-country transfers. The comparison of the implied transfers with the real transfers shows...

The 2008 financial market crisis, followed by the Great Recession and sovereign debt crises in several EU countries have triggered drastic reforms of old-age security systems. They were supposed to ensure the financial viability of public pension schemes in the short and long run and/or to...