Aid effectiveness is defined as contractual completeness. EU development aid constitutes the new soft budget constraint in the former Soviet Union. Transnational sovereignty means that development policy is…
The BAK Taxation Index analyses and compares the tax burden for companies and highly skilled manpower in more than 80 locations of highly-industrialized countries. The BAK Taxation Index is updated on a…
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on…
Iranian government budget on military over the last decade has been higher than the average of the world. The current increasing international sanctions aim to reduce the military capabilities and capacities of…
Main objective of the study is to detect the causes of imbalances on residential property and housing finance markets in order to define policy instruments that help preventing the emergence of market…
In this paper, we analyze if the integration of the European mutual funds industry has brought advantages to private and institutional investors. Moreover, we examine the possible determinants of fund fees as…
The goal of this project was twofold. The first objective was to find out to what extent publicly available beneficiary data (from managing authorities and commercial databases) could be used for quantitative,…
Analyzing the link between market structure and market performance is of central importance in the field of industrial organization. The aim is to understand the role of market structure, i.e., the number of…
Decomposing sources of growth in a growth accounting framework relies heavily on price measures as proxies for input productivity. We show how different price measures affect the contribution of investment to…
