Fairness in the policy process can be seen as an ethical obligation to take a plurality of social values, perspectives and interests into account. This means that fairness is very much linked to the concept of democracy. How can we then implement some reasonable democratic principles in the...

Entry barriers make markets less contestable and thereby reduce competition, resulting in lower TFP, GDP and employment growth. Following the Lisbon strategy, Member States increasingly adopted measures to reduce the costs of starting a business. This paper quantifies the macroeconomic impact of...

Nuclear data of importance to the operation of MYRRHA, a research infrastructure supporting the development of Generation-IV reactors, were identified by sensitivity analysis. The data recommended in the main nuclear data libraries (i.e. JEFF, JENDL, ENDF/B, and TENDL) were compared and...

European integration changes the prospects of regional economies within the Member States of the European Union in many ways. Cohesion policy is the EU's instrument to influence and complement the efforts at the national level to ensure that the gains of economic integration reach everyone, and...

Parameter uncertainty has fuelled criticisms on the robustness of CGE results and has led to the development of alternative approaches to sensitivity analyses. Researchers have used Monte Carlo (MC) for systematic sensitivity analysis (SSA) because of its flexibility. However, MC may provide...

The European Commission is currently evaluating different policy options towards the use of cloning or products derived from cloned animals in the food chain. This study presents a first attempt to quantify the likely effects of different policy scenarios on international trade and EU domestic...

This report is based on the outcome of a study carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS, Spain) in cooperation with EuroCARE (Bonn, Germany). The report provides a detailed description of the methodology developed...

This study presents a quantitative policy impact analysis of alternative policy and macroeconomic assumptions in the agricultural farming sector. Three scenarios are considered: direct payment scenario, macroeconomic environment scenario and WTO scenario. We apply the CAPRI-Farm model, an...

This EUR report describes numerical missile impact analyses on a reinforced concrete slab performed at JRC-IE using the Finite Element (FE) solver ABAQUS/Explicit. The FE model of the impacted reinforced concrete slab resembles a structure used in the missile impact tests by Hanchak et al. FE...

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...