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July 2011, Volume 9, Issue 02
- 36-43 Ending Military Conscription
by Panu Poutvaara & Andreas Wagener - 44-51 EU Eastern Enlargement: The Benefits from Integration and Free Labour Movement
by Timo Baas & Herbert Brücker - 52-54 Insurance Crowding Out and Long-Term Care Partnerships
by Joan Costa-Font - 55-59 School Choice in The Netherlands
by Harry Anthony Patrinos
May 2011, Volume 9, Issue 01
- 3-7 Lobbying: Private Interests and Public Conduct
by Andreas Polk - 8-11 The Power of K Street: New Research on the Economics of Lobbying
by Jordi Blanes i Vidal & Mirko Draca & Christian Fons-Rosen - 12-16 Lobbying versus Corruption
by Francesco Giovannoni - 17-20 Campaign Contributions – What Do They Buy and Should They be Capped?
by Thomas Stratmann - 21-27 Measuring Information Sharing in Credit Markets
by Christa Hainz - 28-34 Good Institutions are not Enough: Ongoing Challenges of Eastern German Development
by Wendy Carlin - 34-41 Women on Boards – Experience from the Norwegian Quota Reform
by Aagoth Storvik
January 2010, Volume 8, Issue 04
- 3-7 Happiness: A New Approach in Economics
by Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer - 8-12 Cutting through the Clutter: Searching for an Over-Arching Measure of Well-Being
by Jon Hall & Christopher Barrington-Leigh & John Helliwell - 13-16 Happiness, Income and Economic Policy
by Luis Rayo & Gary S. Becker - 17-21 Work and Well-Being
by Andrew E. Clark - 22-25 Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report
by Richard A. Easterlin - 26-31 The Greatest Happiness Principle: Its Time Has Come
by Richard Layard - 32-36 Happiness and Political Institutions
by Alois Stutzer & Bruno S. Frey - 37-46 Measuring Interest Group Activity
by Silke Friedrich - 47-50 The Effects of the Bonus Tax – What Was Intended and What Was Achieved?
by Doina Radulescu & Doina Maria Radulescu
October 2010, Volume 8, Issue 03
- 3-7 Market Imperfections versus Regulatory Imperfections
by Paul L. Joskow - 8-12 The Impact on Growth of Easing Regulation in Upstream Sectors
by Renaud Bourlès & Gilbert Cette & Jimmy Lopez & Jaques Mairesse & Giuseppe Nicoletti - 13-18 The Tension Between Incentive Regulation and Investments in Network Industries
by Ingo Vogelsang - 19-23 The Strange Couple: Regulation and Competition Policy in Network Industries
by Sandra Jódar-Rosell & Jordi Gual - 24-28 Regulation and Competition in the Postal and Delivery Sector
by Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer - 29-33 Occupational Licensing Matters: Wages, Quality and Social Costs
by Morris M. Kleiner & Charles Wheelan - 36-42 Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
by Frederica Origo & Claudio Lucifora - 43-52 Germany's Struggle with Prices for Patent-protected Drugs
by Mathias Kifmann & Sven Neelsen - 53-60 US Health Care Reform: A Primer and an Assessment
by Robert Haveman & Barbara Wolfe & Robert H. Haveman
July 2010, Volume 8, Issue 02
- 3-12 Future Long-term Care Needs and Public Expenditure in the EU Member States
by Bartosz Przywara & Núria Diez Guardia & Etienne Sail - 13-17 The Role of Family Solidarity: Ethical and Social Issues
by Ruud ter Meulen & Katharine Wright - 18-23 Confronting the Challenge of Long-term Care in Europe
by Denis Kessler - 24-28 On Insurance for Long-term Care in France
by Christophe Courbage & Nolwenn Roudaut - 29-34 The Social Long-term Care Insurance: A Frail Pillar of the German Social Insurance System
by Melanie Arntz & Stephan L. Thomsen - 35-39 Improving the Quality of Long-term Care
by Vincent Mor - 40-46 Capital Regulation after the Crisis: Business as Usual?
by Martin Hellwig - 47-52 Welfare State Reforms and the Political Business Cycle
by Alexander Petring - 53-59 Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes: The Political Constraints Approach of Henisz
by Nick Hoffmann - 60-63 A Critique of the 2009 Global "Go-To Think Tanks" Ranking
by Christian Seiler & Klaus Wohlrabe - 64-68 The New Dutch Per-kilometre Driving Tax
by Bert van Wee - 69-74 Filling the Sustainability Gap after the Crisis: The Case of the Netherlands
by Roel Beetsman & Raymond Gradus
April 2010, Volume 8, Issue 01
- 3-7 What Future for Basel II?
by Andrea Resti & Andrea Sironi - 8-13 The Draft AIFM Directive and the Future of European Alternative Investment Fund Regulation
by Phoebus Athanassiou - 14-23 Rating "Agencies": How Regulation Might Help
by Richard Herring & Edward J. Kane - 24-27 The Regulation of Short Sales and its Reform
by Emilios Avgouleas - 28-33 Macro-Prudential Policy: An Assessment
by Alistair Milne - 34-41 Governing "Better Regulation" in Europe: The Logic, Limits of and Prospects for a "Middle-aged" Reform Policy
by Kai Wegrich - 42-53 Entry and Exit Regulations - The World Bank's Doing Business Indicators
by Thomas Strobel - 54-57 State Rescue Plans: The German Government's Attempts to Save Opel
by Helmut Becker
January 2009, Volume 7, Issue 04
- 3-7 Institutional Failures and the Life Course
by A. Lans Bovenberg - 8-11 Securing Long-term Care in the EU: Some Key Issues
by Helmuth Cremer & Pierre Pestieau - 12-15 Time for Change? US Work-Family Policy in the Age of Obama
by Eileen Appelbaum & Ruth Milkman - 16-21 Defined Contribution Accounts - Still an Indispensable Idea
by Jacob Kirkegaard - 22-28 Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence
by Flavio Cunha & James J. Heckman - 29-36 Public Debt and Demography - An International Comparison Using Generational Accounting
by Christian Hagist & Stefan Moog & Bernd Raffelhüschen & Johannes Vatter - 37-50 Women's Empowerment: Gender-related Indices as a Guide for Policy
by Ulrike Jäger & Anja Rohwer & Anja Hülsewig - 51-58 East Germany Today: Successes and Failures
by Joachim Ragnitz
October 2009, Volume 7, Issue 03
- 3-8 Methods for Restructuring Banks
by Marc Quintyn - 9-12 Banking System Bailout- Scandinavian Style
by B. Espen Eckbo - 13-20 Overcoming the Global Financial Crisis: Some Lessons from Japan's "Lost Decade"
by Kenneth Kang & Murtaza Syed - 21-28 Resolving Nonperforming Assets in the Czech Republic: Theory and Practice
by Jan Cimburek & Miroslav Kollár & Lubos Komárek & Pavel Rezábek - 29-33 Sales to Foreign Banks in Emerging Asia
by Ramkishen S. Rajan & Sasidaran Gopalan - 34-41 How much Redistribution do Welfare States Achieve? The Role of Cash Transfers and Household Taxes
by Michael Förster & Peter Whiteford - 42-52 Measuring Corruption: A Comparison between the Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index and the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators
by Anja Rohwer & Anja Hülsewig - 53-60 Germany goes ahead with Health Vouchers
by Wolfram F. Richter
July 2009, Volume 7, Issue 02
- 3-6 How to Draw up a Credible International Rule System for Financial Stabilility
by Horst Siebert - 7-12 Optimal Structures for Financial Regulation and Supervision
by David G. Mayes - 13-18 Multinational Banking and Regulatory Challenges: Lessons from the US Experience with AIG
by Robert A. Eisenbeis - 19-23 Lessons from the Banking Crisis: A Return to Narrow Banking
by Paul De Grauwe - 24-29 Institutions and Growth in OECD Countries
by Theo Eicher & Wolfgang Ochel & Oliver Roehn & Anja Rohwer & Anja Hülsewig - 30-38 Employment Protection: Concepts and Measurement
by Wolfgang Ochel - 39-46 Governance in Australian Universities: Where Next?
by James Swansson & Deborah Blackman - 47-51 Parental Leave in the Netherlands
by Janneke Plantenga & Chantal Remery
April 2009, Volume 7, Issue 01
- 3-7 Women, Culture and Economics
by Raquel Fernández - 8-12 The Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes
by Thomas Dohmen & Armin Falk & David Huffman & Uwe Sunde - 13-19 The Effect of Culture on the Functioning of Institutions: Evidence from European Regions
by Guido Tabellini & Mariaflavia Harari - 20-25 Cultural Ecomomics
by Bruno S. Frey - 26-34 International Evidence on School Tracking: A Review
by Ludger Woessmann - 35-40 Regulatory Framework for Next-Generation Access Networks Across Europe
by Florian Engl & Nina Czernich & Tobias Kretschmer & Thomas Kiessl & Oliver Falck - 41-48 US Experience with Federal Budget Rules
by Alan Auerbach
December 2008, Volume 6, Issue 04
- 3-8 Flexicurity as a Policy Agenda
by Peter Auer & Bernard Gazier - 9-14 Flexicurity: Lessons and Proposals from the Netherlands
by Lans Bovenberg & Ton Wilthagen & Sonja Bekker - 15-20 Flexicurity in Denmark
by Torben Andersen & Michael Svarer - 21-28 European Employment and the Flexicurity Option
by Luca Nunziata - 29-35 Reduction of Employment Protection in OECD Countries: Its Driving Forces
by Wolfgang Ochel & Oliver Roehn & Anja Rohwer & Thomas Stratmann & Anja Hülsewig - 36-40 Creating an EU Flexicurity System: An American Perspective
by Richard V. Burkhauser - 41-48 Control Mechanisms for Sovereign Wealth Funds in Selected Countries
by Steffen Kern - 49-56 Two-tier Employment Protection Reforms: The Spanish Experience
by Samuel Bentolila & Juan Jose Dolado & Juan F. Jimeno
October 2008, Volume 6, Issue 03
- 3-8 Bank Regulation in the United States
by James R. Barth & Triphon Phumiwasana & Wenling Lu - 9-13 Bank Regulation in Japan
by Nobusuke Tamaki - 14-19 Driving Factors of the Subprime Crisis and Some Reform Proposals
by Bernd Rudolph & Julia Scholz - 20-26 Supervision of the Irish Banking System: A Critical Perspective
by K.P.V. O’Sullivan & Tom Kennedy - 27-36 Towards an EU Framework for Safeguarding Financial Stability
by Maria J. Nieto & Garry J. Schinasi - 37-49 Risk Adjustment Systems in Health Insurance Markets in the US, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland
by Udo Schneider & Volker Ulrich & Eberhard Wille - 50-59 The Corporate Tax Reform of 2008: Germany’s Answer to Globalization – or Just Patchwork?
by Christian Baretti & Doina Radulescu & Michael Stimmelmayr & Doina Maria Radulescu
July 2008, Volume 6, Issue 02
- 3-8 The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children
by James J. Heckman - 09-14 Why Governments Should Invest in Early Education
by W. Steve Barnett - 15-20 Efficient Provision of High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Does the Private Sector or Public Sector Do It Best?
by David Blau & Janet Currie - 21-26 Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care – Languages of Evaluation
by Gunilla Dahlberg & Peter Moss - 29-35 International Large Scale Assessment of Vocational Education and Training (VET-LSA)
by Martin Baethge & Lena Arends - 36-43 Trading Uncertainties: The Transatlantic Divide in Regulating Biotechnology
by Sheila Jasanoff - 44-51 Gender Budgeting in Austria
by Margit Schratzenstaller
April 2008, Volume 6, Issue 01
- 3-9 The Canadian Federal-Provincial Fiscal Equalization System
by Bev Dahlby - 10-15 Fiscal Equalisation in Australia: High Level VFI and Equity Focused HFE
by Neil Warren - 16-20 Fiscal Equalization: The Case of German Municipalities
by Thiess Büttner & Fédéric Holm-Hadulla - 21-26 Reform of the Swiss Fiscal Equalisation System
by René L. Frey & Gérard Wettstein - 27-31 How Corporate Tax Competition Reduces Personal Tax Revenue
by Ruud A. De Mooij & Gaëtan J.A. Nicodème & Gaëtan J.A. Nicodeme - 32-36 Political Support and Tax Reforms: An Italian Example
by Paola Profeta
June 2007, Volume 5, Issue 04
- 3-7 Burden Sharing in Climate Change Policy
by Agnar Sandmo - 8-12 Green Taxes and Climate Change: Theory and Reality
by Janet E. Milne - 13-16 US Experience with Emissions Trading
by A. Denny Ellerman - 17-25 The European Emissions Trading Scheme: An Overview of Operations and Lessons
by Michael Grubb - 26-32 Feed-in Tariffs and Quotas for Renewable Energy in Europe
by Gustav Resch & Mario Ragwitz & Anne Held & Thomas Faber & Reinhard Haas - 35-40 Sector-specific Regulation: Transitory or ad Infinitum? An International Status Report on Regulatory Institutions
by Hans Schedl - 41-48 The Severance Pay Reform in Austria ("Abfertigung neu")
by Helmut Hofer
October 2007, Volume 5, Issue 03
- 3-10 The Choice of Institutions
by Alberto Alesina - 11-16 An Economic Theory of Constitutional Choice
by Davide Ticchi & Andrea Vindigni - 17-22 Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency
by Alessandra Casella & Thomas Palfrey & Raymond Riezman - 23-27 Some Reflections on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Multijurisdictional Antitrust Enforcement in Europe
by Patrick Van Cayseele - 33-37 Learning from Other Economies - for example from Somewhere Down Under
by Richard B. Freeman - 38-42 A Chinese Recipe for Curbing the Evasion of Commodity Taxes?
by Carla Marchese
July 2007, Volume 5, Issue 02
- 1-03 Privatisation and Regulation of Water Supply - Overview
by Johann Wackerbauer - 4-12 Water Sector Regulation in France
by Bernard Barraqué & Cédric Le Bris - 13-20 The Provision of Water Services in the UK
by Thomas Zabel - 21-26 Regulation of Water Supply in Germany
by R. Andreas Kraemer & Britta Pielen & Colette de Roo - 27-32 Public-Private Partnership in Finnish Water Services
by Pekka E. Pietilä & Tapio S. Katko & Jarmo J. Hukka - 33-39 Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation for Developing Countries
by Karl-Ulrich Rudolph & Michael Harbach - 40-47 Subordination of Shareholder Loans from a Legal and Economic Perspective
by Martin Gelter & Jürg Roth - 48-54 Do we need a European Directive for Credit Reporting?
by Nicola Jentzsch - 55-61 Higher Education Financing in Australia
by Bruce Chapman
May 2007, Volume 5, Issue 01
- 3-9 Diversity in Shareholder Protection in Common Law Countries
by Priya P. Lele & Mathias M. Siems - 10-15 The Effectiveness of Insider Trading Regulation: International Evidence
by Art A. Durnev & Amrita S. Nain - 16-21 Controlling vs. Minority Shareholders: is There Expropriation? An Empirical Analysis of the Stock Price Performance of European Companies
by Jose Guedes & Gilberto Loureiro - 22-27 Shareholder Welfare in Minority Freeze-Out Bids: Are Legal Protections Sufficient? Evidence from the U.S. Market
by Thomas W. Bates & James S. Linck - 28-32 Can Adverse Effects of Poor Investor Protection Be Mitigated by Incoming Foreign Investment?
by Eric Kelley & Tracie Woidtke - 33-37 Does Dividend Policy Have a Political Dimension? The British Case
by Steven Bank & Brian Cheffins & Marc Goergen - 38-49 Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in OECD Countries – An Institutions Climate Index
by Theo Eicher & Oliver Roehn - 50-62 What Does the Institutions Climate Index for OECD Countries Tell us about Institutional Change and Economic Policy Reforms?
by Wolfgang Ochel & Rigmar Osterkamp - 63-67 Health Insurance Reform in the Netherlands
by Stefan Greß & Maral Manouguian & Jürgen Wasem
February 2006, Volume 4, Issue 04
- 3-7 The New Directive on the Right of Citizens of the Union and their Family Members to Move and Reside Freely within the Territory of the Member States - What Changes Does it Bring?
by Ana Herrera de la Casa & Michael Meduna - 8-13 The EU Directive on Free Movement and Access to Social Benefits
by Kay Hailbronner - 14-20 Did the European Free Movement of Persons and Residence Directive Change Migration Patterns within the EU? A First Glance
by Tanja El-Cherkeh & Max Steinhardt & Thomas Straubhaar - 21-29 The EU Directive on Free Movement - A Challenge for the European Welfare State?
by Wolfgang Ochel - 33-41 Workplace Training and Labour Market Institutions in Europe
by Giorgio Brunello - 42-49 The Regulation and Privatisation of the Public Water Supply and the Resulting Competitive Effects
by Johann Wackerbauer - 50-54 Income Taxation and its Family Components in France
by Fabien Dell & Katharina Wrohlich
October 2006, Volume 4, Issue 03
- 3-9 Access and Interconnection Pricing Issues in Telecommunications
by Ingo Vogelsang - 10-15 Broadband Access in Europe: Challenges for Policy and Regulation
by Paul de Bijl & Martin Peitz - 16-21 Telecommunications Reform and Performance – A Global View
by Antonio Estache & Ana Goicoechea & Marco Manacorda - 22-28 Fibre-optic Networks: On Investment, Regulation and Competition
by Peter Heinacher & Brigitte Preissl - 29-38 The Telecommunication Markets in Selected OECD Countries: Market Characteristics and Regulatory Institutions
by Thomas Kiessl & Hans Schedl - 39-43 Shareholder Protection Across Countries – Is the EU on the Right Track?
by Mathias M. Siems - 44-49 Criminal Tax Law in the U.S. – A Model for Improving German Criminal Tax Law Enforcement?
by Matthias Zahner
July 2006, Volume 4, Issue 02
- 3-9 Incentive Regulation for Electricity Networks
by Paul L. Joskow - 10-15 Unilateral Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets
by Frank A. Wolak - 16-23 Electricity Market Liberalisation and Integration in the European Union
by Tooraj Jamasb & Michael Pollitt - 24-29 Lessons from Liberalised Electricity Markets
by Ulrik Stridbaek - 30-38 Regulation of the Electricity Market in Germany
by Volker Heck - 39-47 Pricing and Reimbursement of Prescription Drugs in German Social Health Insurance
by Stefan Greß & Jürgen Wasem & Dea Niebuhr - 48-60 Ranking of Countries - The WEF, IMD, Fraser and Heritage Indices
by Wolfgang Ochel & Oliver Roehn - 61-68 Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland
by Stefanie Behncke & Markus Frölich & Michael Lechner
April 2006, Volume 4, Issue 01
- 3-8 Different approaches to bankruptcy
by Oliver Hart - 9-15 Insolvency laws around the world - a statistical analysis and rules for their design
by Stijn Claessens & Leora Klapper - 16-21 EU insolvency regulation and its impact on European business
by Bob Wessels - 22-26 Bankruptcy and small business - lessons from the US and recent reforms
by Michelle White - 27-33 Insolvency in selected OECD countries: Outcomes and regulations
by Rigmar Osterkamp - 34-38 Sustainability of fiscal policy in the EU-15
by António Afonso - 39-44 Financing the EU budget - Present situations and perspective
by Johannes Clemens & Astrid Lemmer - 45-49 Russia's FLat-Tax: Myths and facts
by Clifford Gaddy & William G Gale
January 2005, Volume 3, Issue 04
- 3-9 Restructuring Railways: In Theory and Practice
by Marc Ivaldi - 10-15 Regulation and Deregulation in the Japanese Rail Industry
by Fumitoshi Mizutani - 16-20 Railway Privatisation and Regulation in Great Britain
by Chris Bolt - 21-25 Railway (De-)regulation in Germany
by Günter Knieps - 26-33 Railway (De-)regulation in EU Member States and the Future of European Rail
by J. Scherp - 34-39 Inequality across the Generations in North America and Europe
by Miles Corak - 40-55 Concepts and Measurement of Labour Market Institutions
by Wolfgang Ochel - 56-63 The Effective Tax Burden of Companies in Europe
by Michael Overesch - 64-74 Education Policy in the UK
by Steve Machin & Anna Vignoles
November 2005, Volume 3, Issue 03
- 3-4 Urban Congestion Pricing – Economists and Practitioners Join Hands
by Tilmann Rave - 5-11 City Tolls – One Element of an Effective Policy Cocktail
by Richard J. Arnott - 12-16 Road Pricing – Singapore’s 30 Years of Experience
by Kian-Keong Chin - 17-21 London Congestion Pricing – Implications for Other Cities
by Todd Litman - 22-27 Policy Transfer through Research Networks – the Example of Urban Road Pricing
by Catharina Sikow-Magny & Marcel Rommerts - 28-33 Not optimal, but Effective: the Multi-Mode Ticket for Reducing Urban Traffic Congestion in Medium-Sized Towns
by Ronnie Schöb - 34-42 Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review
by Richard M. Bird & Enid Slack - 43-52 An international Comparison of Selected Innovation Drivers
by Lothar Funk & Axel Plünnecke - 53-60 Tax Reform in the Slovak Republic
by Ivan Miklos & Marek Jakoby & Karol Morvay - 61-65 Credit and Product Market Effects of Banking Deregulation: Evidence from the French Experience
by Marianne Bertrand & Antoinette Schoar & David Thesmar
July 2005, Volume 3, Issue 02
- 03-07 An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts
by Rebecca M. Blank - 08-12 Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
by Jeffrey Grogger & Lynn A. Karoly - 13-17 Workfare: Towards a New Entitlement or a Cost-cutting Device Targeted at Those Most Distant from the Labour Market?
by Ivar Lødemel - 18-25 Hartz IV – Welfare to Work in Germany
by Wolfgang Ochel - 26-29 Job Search Monitoring and Sanctions
by Gerard J. Van den Berg & Bas van der Klaauw - 30-39 The German Electricity Sector – Finally on the Move?
by Ingo Vogelsang - 40-44 Family Policy in France: Old Challenges, New Tensions
by Jeanne Fagnani - 45-50 Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in the US: A Model for Europe?
by Julia Fath & Clemens Fuest
April 2005, Volume 3, Issue 01
- 03-11 Size and Impact of Privatisation – A Survey of Empirical Studies
by Candra S. Chahyadi & William L. Megginson & Jeffry M. Netter - 12-18 Political Institutions and Privatisation Policy
by Bernardo Bortolotti