COHESION POLICY INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTING TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Institutions and Policy Learning Supporting Economic Development

The paper argues that a narrow conceptualization of institutions as more or less similar to ‘good governance’ is not conductive for an understanding of the institutional underpinnings of the learning economy. In stead an explicit focus on a broad set of institutions that support learning is needed. Improving learning and innovation capabilities is not only a question of more resources for educa...

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

Monetary policy transmission channels and policy instruments ∗

The Federal Reserve has implemented policies during the past six years that rely on channels of transmission to the real economy that economic models have assumed to exist but seldom tested or on channels that were simply presumed not to exist. I discuss the board channels of monetary policy transmission that may allow forward guidance and balance sheet policies to affect the economy. The assum...

2 . The Future of Cohesion Policy in 2014 - 2020 : Can Cohesion Policy Be

Supporting privacy for U-Commerce tourism services

M-Commerce concerns delivering E-commerce services that take into account the mobility of the user. There are additional factors that are important for these kinds of E-commerce services such as Ubiquity (being available everywhere), Universality (being able to operate in heterogeneous environments), Uniqueness (relating services to a context such as the location) and working in Unison (allowin...