This research paper aims to provide an overview of planned and ongoing evaluations of EU legislation and spending programmes carried out by each European Commission Directorate-General (DG). The general overview and state of play on the public availability of evaluations is completed by a...

This check-list presents a comprehensive overview of "review clauses", namely review, evaluation and reporting provisions contained in recent EU legislative acts and programmes. It is produced by the Policy Cycle Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), the EP's in-house...

This check-list presents a comprehensive overview of "review clauses", namely review, evaluation and reporting provisions contained in recent EU legislative acts and programmes. It is produced by the Policy Performance Appraisal Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), the...

This Rolling Check-list presents a comprehensive overview of the European Court of Auditors' (ECA) Special Reports, concentrating on the ones relevant for the 2013 EU Discharge procedure. The document seeks to link the topics discussed by the Special Reports to the relevant debates and positions...

We propose a novel way to measure the rule of law intensity of exports at the goods level based on nearly 100 million disaggregated bilateral trade flows around the globe. We categorise goods into three groups: fragmented, primary and other. The theoretical literature on holdup problems...

The widely used PRODY indicator by Hausmann et al. (2007) [What you Export Matters; Journal of Economic Growth: 12, 1–25] allows the calculation of product sophistication and factor intensities. In this paper I deal with its measurement, its conceptional limitations, its sensitivity to...

The paper extends the literature on the political economy of labour market institutions by developing a framework in which owners of capital can benefit from both greater labour market flexibility and better rule of law. Their choice of location of manufacturing centres can, therefore, by...

The paper extends the literature on the political economy of labour market institutions by developing a framework in which owners of capital can benefit from both greater labour market flexibility and better rule of law. Their choice of location of manufacturing centres can, therefore, by...