Most of the EU budget is spent on redistribution. Large sums of money are transferred from the member state governments to Brussels and back to these governments. Some member states end up as net receivers and some as net payers. Most economists agree that the resources of the budget should be...

Teilen (können) ist das neue Haben (wollen)? So scheint es bisweilen, wenn man die immer größer werdende Zahl von Veröffentlichungen zur Sharing Economy betrachtet. Nicht wenige sprechen bereits von einer weiteren industriellen Revolution, ermöglicht durch die fortschreitende...

Problems resulting from the delegation of competencies from one actor to another are at the heart of any governance discussion. While the conventional agency view stronger emphasizes that such problems can be solved ex-post by monitoring and control strategies, the contract view proposes to...