Das Forschungsprojekt "Bürokratiekosten" erstreckt sich über vier Bände zu vier verschiedenen Regulierungen. Teil 4 widmet sich der Datenschutzgrundverordnung. Hier wurden die erforderlichen Angaben in vier Mitgliedsländern der EU untersucht und die ökonomischen Kosten in der...

Italy's officially joining the China-led Belt and Road Initiative sparked a fierce debate. By analysing five fields of cooperation, the volume sheds light on whether the bilateral agreement has brought about an intensification of bilateral collaboration as wished by the Italian government at the...

"Exploring the rationales behind legal anger, its logic and origins, this book draws on the perspectives of judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the USA, and Scotland. When do judges and prosecutors become angry in court, what do they become angry about, and which other emotions open up for...

"In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic remedy theriac became a focus of political and market power. The State Drug examines princes who secured support by regulating theriac and apothecaries who competed to brand their own recipes. So popular that it became ungovernable, theriac is a window into the...

Has the strategy of the "external constraint" (voluntarily limiting the country's policy-making discretion by tying it to the European mast) contributed to Italy's stagnation over the past twenty-five years? The existing literature is divided on this question. The dominant interpretation is that...

The COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a resurgence of the euro crisis. In this context, Italy seems particularly vulnerable: support for the euro is lower than in most other eurozone countries, and a possible exit could have serious consequences for the common currency. Based on a novel survey...

This paper examines the ownership structure of eurozone public debt and the distributional consequences thereof. Through both a comparative perspective and an explorative case study of Italy, this paper asks two research questions. Firstly, it asks who holds government debt in Spain, France,...