Last two decades were a period of significant discussion concerning determinants of effectiveness of fiscal policy. After some cases of expansionary episodes of fiscal consolidations in eighties of XX century, an intensive international research on the possibility of non-Keynesian effects of...

The purpose of the article was to evaluate the relationship between the level of institutional effectiveness in the context of global knowledge economy (KBE) and quality of life for the EU countries in the years 2004 and 2010. To measure the intitutional effectiveness authors proposed a...