Publications

This study assesses the socio-economic and environmental effects of different societal and human development scenarios and climate change in the water-scarce southern and eastern Mediterranean. It pro...chevron_right

This study investigates the impact of EU agricultural policy (CAP) subsidies on the productivity of farms in the EU. It's main findings are clear: subsidies had a negative impact on farm productivity ...chevron_right

This policy paper discusses human capital and social mobility across the Southern-Eastern Mediterranean region (SEMC). It argues that demographic and societal structures in SEMCs are expected to under...chevron_right

Against the background of the current discussion about the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013, the question of the impact of government support on land prices is crucially important. Thi...chevron_right

EU member states have to transpose the alternative investment fund managers Directive (AIFMD) into national law by July 2013. This commentary focuses on four key aspects of the directive: the limits t...chevron_right

The centerpiece of EU climate change policy has since 2005 been the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). Confidence in the effectiveness of the ETS has been shattered, however, by the simultaneous ‘fail...chevron_right

This paper builds predictive scenarios for the agricultural sector of eleven southern and eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMCs), namely Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pales...chevron_right

This paper explores the relationship between financial sector development and economic growth, using a sample of northern and southern Mediterranean countries for the years 1985-2009. The authors incl...chevron_right

This paper presents three scenarios of how regional relations between the EU and the southern Mediterranean countries will develop after the Arab Spring. Looking ahead to the 2030 horizon, the EU's re...chevron_right

This paper discusses how the eurozone crisis has led to a change in the allocation of tasks in the EU. It examines the increasing differentiation emerging in member states’ participation in the EU, th...chevron_right

This commentary looks at the decline in public support for the EU and the increasingly centralized approach taken towards managing the Euro currency crisis. It argues that the only way Europe's leader...chevron_right

This commentary discusses the validity of relying on individual small country examples as evidence that a particular strategy for overcoming the economic crisis, such as fiscal austerity, works best. ...chevron_right

This paper examines how fear concerning state bond markets in Europe influenced the severity of imposed austerity. The authors argue that panic pushed national spreads (the difference between national...chevron_right

This paper focuses on how incorporating the EU's southern neighbors (Tunisia, Algeria, etc.) with treaty-based legal integration could strategically benefit the EU. The authors argue that the European...chevron_right

Casual observation shows that that the financial systems in the southern and eastern Mediterranean are unable to divert the financial resources that are available to them as funding opportunities to p...chevron_right