The 2021-27 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is facing a number of challenges. This paper addresses the most pressing ones and offers suggestions and ideas on how to deal with them. The challenges addressed are:A. solidarity, budget distribution and cost-sharing between the EU and member...

Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...

D'Albis and Boubtane provide empirical evidence on the macroeconomic and fiscal consequences of international migration for OECD countries. The authors use a panel of 19 countries over the period 1980-2015 to study the effects of increases in the net migration rate on per capita GDP and on both...