The current European Union (EU) asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go...

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...

On October 29, 2004, a Russian military deserter from the war in Chechnya was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom. This was a problematic case for the authorities, not least because the deserter claimed a conscientious objection only to fighting in that particular war. There is no...