Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, Institute … - 2012
paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer … system and secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems.The EU …