This Final report is the final deliverable of the Study on the Temporary Protection Directive (2001/55/EC), an assignment undertaken by ICF Consulting Services Limited (“ICF”), on behalf of DG Migration and Home Affairs (“the Commission”). The Final Report contains the purpose, scope,...

In line with the Terms of Reference, the aims of the Dublin III Evaluation are threefold: To study and provide an in-depth analysis (article-by-article) on the practical implementation of the ‘Dublin III Regulation’in all Member States (phase 1); To evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency,...

The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...

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...

We propose a new methodology to estimate empirically the input price-induced technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical change in China has been induced by sharp increase in...

Ever since the major inflow of refugees (the "refugee crisis") in 2015 and 2016, there has been heated debate about the appropriate distribution of refugees in the EU. Current policies revolve around mandatory quotas, which disregard the preferences of EU members and refugees alike. This problem...