Within the broad ongoing review of the legislation of the European road haulage market the European Commission presented in May 2017 several proposals to clarify the regulation of the market, especially market access, driving and rest periods, and the application of the posted workers directive....

In the wake of 25 UN Climate Change Conferences of the Parties (and counting), international cooperation on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to avoid substantial and potentially irreversible climate change remains an important challenge. The limited impact that the Kyoto Protocol and its...

Introduction Empirical Applications of the Median Voter Model -- Do Voter Initiatives Affect the Interest Group Orientation of Government Spending -- The Political Economy of Automobile Insurance Elected vs Appointed Regulators -- Conflicting Objectives of Cartel Members Analysis of Voting...

This paper introduces macroeconomic forecasters as political agents and suggests that they use their forecasts to influence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the future states of the economy and have to rely on...