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How the EU can move to a higher growth path : some considerations

Siebert, Horst - 2001

In the current slowdown in Europe, the United States and Japan, policy makers are vexed by the question when a recovery will come. This is the wrong question. The issue should be how a higher growth path can be reached in the long run, i.e., how the potential growth rate of our economies can be...

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How the EU can move to a higher growth path : some considerations

Siebert, Horst - 2001

an environment which is conducive for the growth factors.¤ Within the next five years, the member states of the EU should …

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Who needs foreign banks?

Gros, Daniel - 2003

10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated by …

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Catching up : the role of demand, supply and regulated price effects on the real exchange rates of four accession countries

MacDonald, Ronald; Wójcik, Cezary - 2003

The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession …

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Sovereign Risk Premia : The Link between Fiscal Rules and Stability Culture

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2013

There is a growing empirical literature studying whether fiscal rules reduce borrowing costs. Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether these rules are effective genuinely or just because they mirror fiscal preferences of politicians and voters. In our analysis of European bond spreads,...

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Who's Afraid of an EU Tax and Why? - Revenue System Preferences in the European Parliament

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2008

The EU's revenue system is still typical for an organisation based on international cooperation and stands in contrast … to the Union's far advanced legislative and political role. This contrast feeds the debate on granting the EU an … autonomous tax source. Our contribution explores the factors which shape the acceptance of the EU tax option among European …

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European Monetary Union Reform Preferences of French and German Parliamentarians

Blesse, Sebastian - 2019

We analyze data from an author‐conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality, ideology, and personal characteristics. For European Monetary Union policies like...

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A Viable Insolvency Procedure for Sovereigns (VIPS) in the Euro Area

Fuest, Clemens - 2014

A mechanism to restructure the debt of an insolvent euro country is a missing element in the emerging institutional architecture of the euro area. The introduction of an insolvency proce-dure for sovereigns faces a dilemma: In the foreseeable future, its introduction would risk pushing Europe...

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Reconciling Insurance with Market Discipline : A Blueprint for a European Fiscal Union

Dolls, Mathias - 2015

This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. The proposal addresses the shortcomings of most other reform designs which do not offer a solution for insolvent or non-cooperative euro countries. We suggest a design which combines fiscal insurance with an orderly procedure to...

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Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Fiscal Policy? A Meta-Regression-Analysis

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2016

We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules. Based on 30 studies published in the last decade, we offer a consensus estimate with respect to the level of statistical significance, provide suggestive evidence for the effect size, and identify study...

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