This book constitutes a comprehensive and systemic evaluation of the normative justification of the European Union’s (EU’s) expanding role in the field of criminal law and criminal justice. With the objective of deliberating why the EU should be involved in criminal law and crimina...

Background: Specific learning difficulties (SpLD), ADHD, and ASD are the most common neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) found in mainstream schools. In addition to formal NDD diagnoses, children may exhibit NDD symptoms without meeting full diagnostic criteria, and heterogeneities and commonal...

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Social norms are amongst the most theorized and studied phenomena in the human sciences; they are both the descriptive patterns of human social behaviour and the sanctioned expectations that compel individual adherence to such patterns. Yet a unifying account of the psychology of s...

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We provide some early evidence on the effectiveness of COVID-19 economic policy packages. Our empirical strategy uses firm-level data and relies on the varying degree of vulnerability to the pandemic across industries. We find a robust association of fiscal stimulus with changes in ...

Open banking ends the proprietary control of customer information by banks and it allows customers to share their banking financial data with third parties as a matter of right. It can also permit customers to allow others to remove funds direct from their bank accounts i...

Official estimates of economic growth are regularly revised and therefore forecasts for GDP growth are done on the basis of ever-changing data. The economic literature has intensively studied the properties of those revisions and their implications for forecasting models. However, much less&...