This paper examines the role for tax policies in productivity-shock driven economies with \catching-up-with-the-Joneses" utility functions. The optimal tax policy is shown to a ect the economy countercyclically via procyclical taxes, i.e., \cooling down" the economy with higher taxes when it is \overheating" in booms and \stimulating" the economy with lower taxes in recessions to keep consumpti...

This article describes international collaborative efforts aimed at improving the global capacity to address fisheries crime, with a particular focus on the International Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (IMCS) network and INTERPOL activities. These 2 initiatives have emerged as a response to existing governance deficits and, combined, substantially improve the prospects for addressing ill...

This review paper will present and critically discuss the evolution of Calibration-Free LIBS (CF-LIBS) method some its new applications that appeared since last extensive on...

Climate change and natural disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical shocks have increasingly disrupted school education around world in recent years. Whether leading to closures, destructions or repeated interruptions students’ learning experiences, these external translated into lost opportunities for students. In this context, systems face heightened pressure become ever more resilient,...