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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Fiscal Challenges in Oil-Producing Countries: An Overview -- Part I. Determining Fiscal Policy in Oil-Producing Countries -- 2 An Alternative Interpretation of the "Resource Curse": Theory and Policy Implications -- 3 Operational Aspects of Fiscal Policy in Oil-Producing Countries -- 4 The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy and Economic Management in Oil-Exporting Countries -- 5 Statistical Properties of Oil Prices: Implications for Calculating Government Wealth -- Part II. Dealing with Oil Revenue -- 6 Revenue from the Oil and Gas Sector: Issues and Country Experience -- 7 National Oil Companies: Evolution, Issues, Outlook -- 8 The Assignment of Oil Tax Revenue -- 9 Oil Revenue Assignments: Country Experiences and Issues -- 10 Oil Revenue and Fiscal Federalism -- Part III. Institutional Arrangements for Dealing with Oil Revenue Instability -- 11 Stabilization and Savings Funds for Nonrenewable Resources: Experience and Fiscal Policy Implications -- 12 Fiscal Policy and Petroleum Fund Management in Norway -- 13 Oil Funds in Transition Economies: Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan -- 14 Hedging Government Oil Price Risk -- Part IV. Designing Policies for Domestic Petroleum Pricing -- 15 Issues in Domestic Petroleum Pricing in Oil- Producing Countries -- 16 The Impact of Gasoline Price Subsidies on the Government and the National Oil Company -- 17 Domestic Petroleum Price Smoothing in Developing and Transition Countries -- 18 Energy Sector Quasi-Fiscal Activities in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union -- Contributors.

International law does not empower the territory of a State, such as Cataloniaor Scotland, to claim a right to secession. Atypical precedents show that the increase or decreaseof the territory of a Member State affects primarily only the State in question. This isnot a matter of EU competence; hence, the secession of parts of a State is not regulated underEU law. If secession is consummated, the newly created State, would be excluded fromthe status of Member States and their people shall loose citizenship of the Union. ; El Derecho internacional no faculta a los territorios de un estado, como Cataluñao Escocia, a invocar un derecho a la secesión. Los precedentes atípicos nos muestran que elaumento o disminución del territorio de un Estado miembro afecta primordial y exclusivamenteal estado en cuestión. Es un asunto que no es de competencia de la UE; por ello, lasecesión de partes de un estado no se regula en el Derecho de la UE. Si se consuma la secesión,al constituirse en un nuevo estado, queda fuera del estatuto de Estado miembro y su poblaciónpierde la ciudadanía de la Unión.International law does not empower the territory of a State, such as Cataloniaor Scotland, to claim a right to secession. Atypical precedents show that the increase or decreaseof the territory of a Member State affects primarily only the State in question. This isnot a matter of EU competence; hence, the secession of parts of a State is not regulated underEU law. If secession is consummated, the newly created State, would be excluded fromthe status of Member States and their people shall loose citizenship of the Union.

A selection of macroeconomic models used, or intended for, economic forecasting or policy analysis in the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), is presented in this volume. New features and model applications are discussed and the models used by the Ministries of Finance are evaluated, with special attention to the role of relative prices and their treatment of the supply side. In addition there is a systematic comparison of results from model simulations on the main macroeconomic models in the four Nordic countries. The papers fall naturally into two sections. In Part One the focus is on the short-to-medium term models; in Part Two the focus switches to a presentation of three models that may all be classified as applied general equilibrium (AGE) models.

Summarization: Competitiveness constitutes a primary goal of each country for the accomplishment of its economic and technological targets. The evaluation of competitiveness is considered as a major problem that has risen during the last years due to the globalization and the rapid changes in the socio-economic and technological environment. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the economic and technological aspects of the competitiveness of the European countries. The present study uses a sample of 14 countries-members of the European Union, as well as United States and Japan for comparison reasons. Taking into consideration several technological and economic indicators and using data from a recent study of the European Committee, this paper presents the evaluation of the competitiveness of the countries using a multicriteria ranking methodology (the PROMETHEE II method). The results of this paper contribute to the determination of the most and least competitive as well as technologically developed countries. ; Παρουσιάστηκε στο: Journal of Economic Integration