This paper studies an environment in which a seller seeks to sell two different items to buyers. The seller designs a membership mechanism that assigns positive allocations to members only. With the member set and a membership fee, the seller finds a revenue-maximizing incentive compatible...

In recent years the external government debt has been reviewed and analysed in terms of the European debt crisis and due to the high debt levels in leading economies worldwide. The EU Member States external debt is discussed in the paper as the focus is on Bulgaria and Romania and two main...

Beginner teachers represent a small percentage of the total number of primary school teachers in Europe. The research tries to identify the factors that are related to this fact by comparing different age categories in different states. Multiple regression was used to highlight the predictive...

As a result of comprehensive judicial reform, Ukraine has set out to establish a new specialised intellectual property court (the IP Court). The DFID/FCO funded project implemented by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (QMUL) provided recommendations on possible ways to improve the Ukrainian...

This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western...

Sustainable use of information and communication technologies is gaining importance on the policy maker agenda. As part of the circular economy action plan, the European Union and its member states are focusing more and more on the right to repair of smart phones, laptops and desktops. It is...

I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as well as average household confidence in neighboring...

A popular view among economists, policymakers, and the media, is that the Maastricht Treaty and then Stability and Growth Pact have significantly impaired the ability of EU governments to conduct a stabilizing fiscal policy and to provide an adequate level of public infrastructure. In this...

This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used...

Existing models of contagious currency crises are summarized and surveyed, and it is argued that more weight should be put on political factors. Towards this end, the concept of political contagion introduced, whereby contagion in speculative attacks across currencies arises solely because of...