The concept of the "quality of public finances" (QPF) covers many qualitative and structural issues of fiscal policy. This chapter traces the origins of the concept of QPF to the Lisbon Strategy and the subsequent EPC Working Group on "Quality of Public Finances" (2004‐2007). At its core, the...

Ein Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) ist ein staatliches Förderprogramm in der EU, in dessen Rahmen die teilnehmenden Mitgliedstaaten mit eigenen Mitteln Forschung und Innovation privater Unternehmen in den eigenen Grenzen unterstützen können. Die zentrale Frage, die sich...

State aid for environmental protection, subsidies, community guidelines, aid control policy, jurisdiction over environmental policy, integration principle, ecological tax reform, process-integrated environmental protection, clean techniques

In this paper we review the linkages between the quality of public finances, that is, the level and composition of public expenditure and its financing via revenue and deficits, and economic growth. We review the various channels through which public finances affect growth and its underlying...

The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....