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Flexicurity as a Policy Agenda pp. 3-8: Peter Auer and Bernard Gazier
Flexicurity: Lessons and Proposals from the Netherlands pp. 9-14: Lans Bovenberg, Ton Wilthagen and Sonja Bekker
Flexicurity in Denmark pp. 15-20: Torben Andersen and Michael Svarer
European Employment and the Flexicurity Option pp. 21-28: Luca Nunziata
Reduction of Employment Protection in OECD Countries: Its Driving Forces pp. 29-35: Wolfgang Ochel, Oliver Roehn, Anja Rohwer, Thomas Stratmann and Anja Hülsewig
Creating an EU Flexicurity System: An American Perspective pp. 36-40: Richard Burkhauser
Control Mechanisms for Sovereign Wealth Funds in Selected Countries pp. 41-48: Steffen Kern
Two-tier Employment Protection Reforms: The Spanish Experience pp. 49-56: Samuel Bentolila, Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

Bank Regulation in the United States pp. 3-8: James Barth, Triphon Phumiwasana and Wenling Lu
Bank Regulation in Japan pp. 9-13: Nobusuke Tamaki
Driving Factors of the Subprime Crisis and Some Reform Proposals pp. 14-19: Bernd Rudolph and Julia Scholz
Supervision of the Irish Banking System: A Critical Perspective pp. 20-26: K.P.V. O’Sullivan and Tom Kennedy
Towards an EU Framework for Safeguarding Financial Stability pp. 27-36: Maria J. Nieto and Garry Schinasi
Risk Adjustment Systems in Health Insurance Markets in the US, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland pp. 37-49: Udo Schneider, Volker Ulrich and Eberhard Wille
The Corporate Tax Reform of 2008: Germany’s Answer to Globalization – or Just Patchwork? pp. 50-59: Christian Baretti, Doina Radulescu, Michael Stimmelmayr and Doina Maria Radulescu

The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children pp. 3-8: James Heckman
Why Governments Should Invest in Early Education pp. 09-14: W. Barnett
Efficient Provision of High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Does the Private Sector or Public Sector Do It Best? pp. 15-20: David Blau and Janet Currie
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care – Languages of Evaluation pp. 21-26: Gunilla Dahlberg and Peter Moss
International Large Scale Assessment of Vocational Education and Training (VET-LSA) pp. 29-35: Martin Baethge and Lena Arends
Trading Uncertainties: The Transatlantic Divide in Regulating Biotechnology pp. 36-43: Sheila Jasanoff
Gender Budgeting in Austria pp. 44-51: Margit Schratzenstaller

The Canadian Federal-Provincial Fiscal Equalization System pp. 3-9: Bev Dahlby
Fiscal Equalisation in Australia: High Level VFI and Equity Focused HFE pp. 10-15: Neil Warren
Fiscal Equalization: The Case of German Municipalities pp. 16-20: Thiess Büttner and Fédéric Holm-Hadulla
Reform of the Swiss Fiscal Equalisation System pp. 21-26: René L. Frey and Gérard Wettstein
How Corporate Tax Competition Reduces Personal Tax Revenue pp. 27-31: Ruud de Mooij, Gaëtan J.A. Nicodème and Gaëtan J.A. Nicodeme
Political Support and Tax Reforms: An Italian Example pp. 32-36: Paola Profeta

Burden Sharing in Climate Change Policy pp. 3-7: Agnar Sandmo
Green Taxes and Climate Change: Theory and Reality pp. 8-12: Janet E. Milne
US Experience with Emissions Trading pp. 13-16: A. Denny Ellerman
The European Emissions Trading Scheme: An Overview of Operations and Lessons pp. 17-25: Michael Grubb
Feed-in Tariffs and Quotas for Renewable Energy in Europe pp. 26-32: Gustav Resch, Mario Ragwitz, Anne Held, Thomas Faber and Reinhard Haas
Sector-specific Regulation: Transitory or ad Infinitum? An International Status Report on Regulatory Institutions pp. 35-40: Hans Schedl
The Severance Pay Reform in Austria ("Abfertigung neu") pp. 41-48: Helmut Hofer

The Choice of Institutions pp. 3-10: Alberto Alesina
An Economic Theory of Constitutional Choice pp. 11-16: Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni
Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency pp. 17-22: Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman
Some Reflections on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Multijurisdictional Antitrust Enforcement in Europe pp. 23-27: Patrick Van Cayseele
Learning from Other Economies - for example from Somewhere Down Under pp. 33-37: Richard Freeman
A Chinese Recipe for Curbing the Evasion of Commodity Taxes? pp. 38-42: Carla Marchese

Privatisation and Regulation of Water Supply - Overview pp. 03: Johann Wackerbauer
Water Sector Regulation in France pp. 4-12: Bernard Barraqué and Cédric Le Bris
The Provision of Water Services in the UK pp. 13-20: Thomas Zabel
Regulation of Water Supply in Germany pp. 21-26: R. Andreas Kraemer, Britta Pielen and Colette de Roo
Public-Private Partnership in Finnish Water Services pp. 27-32: Pekka E. Pietilä, Tapio S. Katko and Jarmo J. Hukka
Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation for Developing Countries pp. 33-39: Karl-Ulrich Rudolph and Michael Harbach
Subordination of Shareholder Loans from a Legal and Economic Perspective pp. 40-47: Martin Gelter and Jürg Roth
Do we need a European Directive for Credit Reporting? pp. 48-54: Nicola Jentzsch
Higher Education Financing in Australia pp. 55-61: Bruce Chapman

Diversity in Shareholder Protection in Common Law Countries pp. 3-9: Priya P. Lele and Mathias Siems
The Effectiveness of Insider Trading Regulation: International Evidence pp. 10-15: Art A. Durnev and Amrita S. Nain
Controlling vs. Minority Shareholders: is There Expropriation? An Empirical Analysis of the Stock Price Performance of European Companies pp. 16-21: Jose Guedes and Gilberto Loureiro
Shareholder Welfare in Minority Freeze-Out Bids: Are Legal Protections Sufficient? Evidence from the U.S. Market pp. 22-27: Thomas W. Bates and James S. Linck
Can Adverse Effects of Poor Investor Protection Be Mitigated by Incoming Foreign Investment? pp. 28-32: Eric Kelley and Tracie Woidtke
Does Dividend Policy Have a Political Dimension? The British Case pp. 33-37: Steven Bank, Brian Cheffins and Marc Goergen
Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in OECD Countries – An Institutions Climate Index pp. 38-49: Theo Eicher and Oliver Roehn
What Does the Institutions Climate Index for OECD Countries Tell us about Institutional Change and Economic Policy Reforms? pp. 50-62: Wolfgang Ochel and Rigmar Osterkamp
Health Insurance Reform in the Netherlands pp. 63-67: Stefan Greß, Maral Manouguian and Jürgen Wasem