title: How Europe can deliver: Optimising the division of competences among the EU and its member states
abstract: This study aims to give guidance for a better-performing EU through an improved allocation of competences between the European Union and its member states. The study analyses eight specific policies from a wide range of fields with respect to their preferable assignment. The analysis applies a unified quantified approach and is precise in its definition of "counterfactuals". These counterfactuals are understood as conceptual alternatives to the allocation of competences under the status quo. As 
journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)