This paper explores the fiscal measures adopted in the transition European countries in order to encourage the foreign direct investment. There were analyzed six countries: Albania, Macedonia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine, based on the four criteria:...

The regulatory system has taken 150 years to develop in the US. Even today it is far from unified with four supervisory "agencies" overseeing banking organizations, i.e., 50 State Regulatory bodies, the OCC, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve, with a wide variety of individual and often...

This paper presents the latest version of the European Quality of Government Index (‘EQI'). The data builds on previously published data from 2010 (Charron, Lapuente and Rothstein 2013; Charron, Dijkstra and Lapuente 2013). Based on the largest regionally-focused survey to date, collected in the...

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

This paper stresses the negative impact that the excessive levels of transparency imposed by public procurement rules can have on competition for public contracts and, more generally, on the likelihood of cartelisation of the markets where public procurement takes place. The paper critically...

In the last decades, both the lengthening of life expectancy and an accentuated decline in birth rates have reduced the consistency of the younger generational cohorts. Due to aging population, the burdens of care-giving are projected to intensify in the next quarter of the century in Europe,...

In the face of continuing financial and economic crises in Europe, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been criticized for being overly-conservative in its loans to Europe. Critics in particular have called on the EIB to vastly increase its investment in utilities as a counter-cyclical...

Desde un punto de vista comparado, se describen aquí los dos modelos básicos que existen en Europa a la hora de plantear la indemnización de los daños sufridos por quien antes del accidente desarrollaba tareas domésticas sin remunerar. Después de colocar a nuestro sistema en ese panorama,...

In spite of the wealth of experience which co-operative societies now have behind them, they have not gained uniform recognition across Europe. Supranational authorities such as the European Commission, the UN and the ILO have highlighted the important contribution made by co-operative societies...