The European Commission (EC) has been developing an assessment framework to monitor the evolution of environmental impact associated to the European Union (EU) consumption. The assessment framework should help to support a wide array of policies, such as those related to resource efficiency,...

The European Commission (EC) has been developing an assessment framework to monitor the evolution of environmental impact associated to the European Union (EU) consumption. The assessment framework should help to support a wide array of policies, such as those related to resource efficiency,...

This report details the methodology of the Consumption Footprint indicator employed in the science for policy report 'Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint: Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption and production' and the Consumption Footprint Platform. In particular, it...

This report details the methodology of the Consumption Footprint indicator employed in the science for policy report 'Consumption Footprint and Domestic Footprint: Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption and production' 1 and the Consumption Footprint Platform2 . In particular, it...

This paper focuses on the process of evaluation of the external efficiency of higher education, defined as the effect of university education on the long-term income of graduates; in particular we propose the use of human capital as the outcome of interest and a proper methodology to estimate it...

The objective of this study is to provide a new evidence on time-varying equity market integration, employing alternative econometric specifications of the conditional covariance process. Differently from the current literature on the topic, we specify alternative econometric models for the...

This paper describes a methodology to identify different components of external competitiveness using readily accessible, aggregate trade and macroeconomic data. Building on demand system with quadratic preferences, asymmetric varieties and heterogeneous consumers, it is shown how to use trade...

This certification report describes the processing and characterisation of ERM-FA016aq, a batch of Charpy V certified reference test pieces. Sets of five of these test pieces are used for the verification of impact pendulums according to EN 10045-2 (Charpy impact test on metallic materials, Part...