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not economic necessity have dictated the consolidation in the EU during the 90s. …
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This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. We argue that a viable European fiscal union can be constructed without joint liability for public debt or a centralized government with a large common budget. Such a fiscal union should combine elements of market discipline...
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Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
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Währungsunion. Hintergrund für diese Erweiterung ist das in Deutschland, aber auch in manchen anderen EU-Staaten, zu beobachtende …
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Are the characteristics of the exchange rate regime relevant for the degree of fiscal discipline? What are the conclusions for fiscal behavior in Europe after the transition to EMU? These are the central questions that are analyzed in this paper from a theoretical point of view. After a general...
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There are at least two reasons why sustainability of public debt is an issue of increasing importance. First, public choice considerations show the danger of excessive use of deficit finance in a democracy. Second, the conditions of a European Monetary Union imply further incentives for deficit...
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The experiences of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe highlight the failures of the current model of having the EU … of reception capacity; (B) EU financing of national service provision; and (C) EU service provision in asylum policies. …
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country in the EU. This is due to deeply-rooted structural differences in legal systems, development of markets and …-based forms of financing of investments by enterprises in the EU. Disintermediation, and institutionalisation of savings in … authorities would have reacted to something like the LTCM collapse in the EU is a good way to see the importance of these two …
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