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The aim of this thesis is to summarize key power indices, and apply certain indices to the Council of the EU. The applications emphasize the scenarios in which Ukraine joins the EU. I rely on 2021 population data from Eurostat to compute the a priori Banzhaf- and Shapley-Shubik power indices. Furthermore, I employ data from the 2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey to calculate a posteriori power using the status quo index. I compute a posteriori power for the EU27 in three distinct policy areas: cohesion, asylum, and redistribution.

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This paper aims to investigate macro variables movement in the window of banking, currency and default crisis between advanced and emerging economies. In addition, this dissertation evaluates the possibility of each crisis in advanced and emerging countries by employing a conditional logit model with country-fixed effects. We find that banking crises are closely linked to advanced countries' current accounts and the output gap. Meanwhile, foreign reserves, real exchange rate deviation and output gap prove to be statistically significant in emerging countries. For currency crises, we can justify the significant effects of public debt, domestic credit (relative to output), real exchange rate misalignment, and output gap for ADV, but only the current account over the output for EME. In general, an increase in the current account and foreign reserves reduces the possibility of a bank or currency recession, while a domestic credit surge would raise the likelihood of having a crisis. The results highlight that countries can reduce the frequency of financial crises by adopting prudent policies. The model estimates that higher levels of public debt to GDP predict a decreased chance of a currency crisis in ADV. The effect of output gap and real exchange rate deviation on the predictive ability of the logit model is mixed. For default crises, the model fails to find significant early warning indicators.

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This study aims to better understand the relationship between an individual (Sender) trying to influence decisions made by another individual (Receiver) who must make choices that directly influence the Sender's state. This study takes the form of an experiment with 45 Taiwanese and European students. We first show that the obedience principle mentioned Bayesian persuasion literature - "If the Receiver is indifferent between some actions at a given belief, we assume she takes an action that maximizes Sender's expected utility" - is not verified empirically. Next, we find that age has a significant impact on disobedience. On the other hand, we find that gender, nationality and the level of quantitative training do not have a significant impact on the degree to which participants will follow our advice. We then propose to look at the Sender/Receiver relationship from the perspective of trust and from the hypothesis that the more similar the two individuals are, the higher the level of follow. Although we do not find significant results to confirm this, we do find that the group that follows the Sender's advice the least is the group that is furthest from the Sender in terms of gender and nationality. We also find that age positively and significantly predicts the risk-averse strategy played by some participants.