Since the introduction of the euro in 2002, the European Commission has regularly conducted surveys measuring public perceptions of the currency among citizens living in the euro-area countries. This Flash Eurobarometer survey represents the 19th in this series of surveys and includes evaluation...
The EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) is the product of systematic and comprehensive analysis of law enforcement information on criminal activities and networks affecting the EU. The SOCTA is designed to assist decision-makers in the prioritisation of serious and organised...
The European Union has put in place an extraordinary array of policy measures to mitigate the devastating economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sheer amount and extent of the support economic lifelines makes a rushed termination of policies potentially subject to dire cliff effects...
Ricardo was commissioned to support the European Commission in the assessment of the impacts of the obligation of regular return of the vehicle to the Member State of establishment (as established in the revised Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 on access to the occupation of road transport operator)...
We build a new empirical model to estimate the global impact of an increase in the volatility of US monetary policy shocks. Specifically, we admit time-varying variances of local structural shocks from a stochastic volatility specification. By allowing for rich dynamic interaction between the endo...
Taxes account for a significant share of the final price of energy products in the EU. Energy taxes provide flexible and cost-effective means for reinforcing the polluter-pays principle and for reaching objectives of the European Green Deal. However, as energy taxation raises the price citizens ...
REACH authorisation aims to ensure the good functioning of the internal market while assuring that risks from substances of very high concern (SVHCs) are properly controlled and that these substances are progressively replaced by suitable alternative substances or technologies, where these are e...
Microcredits and cash transfers are two distinct tools, but they both target poor households and individuals with cash alike. This report provides details of the latest advances in these cash-for-development tools at a time when the EU is reshaping its development finance tools for the 2021-27 p...
Existing estimates highlight the importance of business transfers for European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the European economy. According to these estimates, around 450,000 businesses across Europe are transferred each year, affecting around 2 million employees. The estimates ...