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Policy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how...

Given strong year-to-year variability, increasing competition for natural resources, and climate change impacts on agriculture, monitoring global crop and natural vegetation conditions is highly relevant...

Nowadays there is a strong need for methods capable of differentiating distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) according to their geographical and/or botanical origin. In this study, near...

There is a paucity of quantitative impact assessments of the sectorial and macroeconomic impacts of CAP budget reform for EU member states. To fill this gap, the current study employs a sophisticated...

This paper analyzes the relation between income and emissions in the period 1970-2008, for all world countries. We consider time-series of CO2, SO2 and GWP100, and use Vector Autoregressive...

Using teachers’ skills from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and students’ performance from the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) we exploit a multilevel model to investigate how...

This paper estimates the effect of income taxation and transfers on labour supply at the extensive margin, i.e., the labour force participation. We extend existing structural form methodologies...

In the 21st century, the issues of climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth and environmental degradation are posing challenging questions for policy makers. The European Union...

The values and attitudes towards gender roles are often investigated and compared from a cross-country perspective without the proper statistical treatment of the measurement invariance (MI) assessment. This implies...

The concept of 'bioeconomy' is receiving increased attention in policy and business circles. The European Commission (EC) has initiated the Bioeconomy Strategy which is a signal of intent that the EU seeks...