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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2009

-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers …. -- Fiscal policy, convergence ; regional economic growth ; regional migration …

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Fiscal transfers and economic convergence

Capella-Ramos, João; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - 2020

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

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What explains the surge in euro area sovereign spreads during the financial crisis of 2007 - 09?

Attinasi, Maria-Grazia; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - 2009

This paper uses a dynamic panel approach to explain the determinants of widening sovereign bond yield spreads vis-à-vis Germany in selected euro area countries during the period end-July 2007 to end-March 2009, when the financial turmoil developed into a full-blown financial and economic...

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The impact of high and growing government debt on economic growth : an empirical investigation for the euro area

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Rother, Philipp C. - 2010

This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries over a period of about 40 years starting in 1970. It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point—beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a...

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Digital Services Tax : Assessing the Policy Reasons for its Introduction in the European Union: Feedback to the EU Consultation on the Introduction of a Digital Levy

Pinto Nogueira, João Félix; Pistone, Pasquale; … - 2021

This Study contains the final version of the document elaborated by the IBFD Task Force on the Digital Economy as a submission to the European Commission in the framework of its 2021 Public Consultation on the possible introduction of an EU digital levy. Based on a reconstruction of the...

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Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Euro Area

Debrun, Xavier; Masuch, Klaus; Vansteenkiste, Isabel; … - 2021

The last review of the ECB’s monetary policy strategy in 2003 followed a period of predominantly upside risks to price stability. Experience following the 2008 financial crisis has focused renewed attention on the question of how monetary and fiscal policy should best interact, in particular...

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OS ECJ-TF 1/2015 of the CFE on the Decisions of the European Court of Justice in Commission v. Spain (Case C-127/12) and Commission v. Germany (Case C-211/13) Concerning Inheritanc...

Pinto Nogueira, João Félix - 2020

This article deals with the decision taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in September 2014 regarding the compatibility of inheritance taxation with the fundamental freedoms (Commission v. Spain (Case C-127/12) and Commission v. Germany (Case C-211/13)).The authors welcome the...

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OS ECJ-TF 3/2015 on the Decision of the European Court of Justice in C.G. Sopora (Case C-512/13), on 'Horizontal Discrimination'

Pinto Nogueira, João Félix - 2020

This article deals with the decision taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Sopora (Case C-512/13), which was decided by the Grand Chamber of the ECJ on 24 February 2015. It concerns the question of whether a specific requirement to obtain a tax advantage for foreign (incoming)...

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OS ECJ-TF 2/2016 on the Decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 13 July 2016 in Brisal and KBC Finance Ireland (Case C-18/15), on the Admissibility of Gross Withh...

Pinto Nogueira, João Félix - 2020

This article examines the decision of the CJEU in Brisal and KBC Finance Ireland (Case C-18/15) of 13 July 2016. Following a Portuguese reference for a preliminary ruling, the Court's decision provides further clarification on the permissibility of withholding taxation within the European Union....

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OS ECJ-TF 1/2017 on the Decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in SECIL (Case C-464/14) Concerning the Free Movement of Capital and Third Countries

Pinto Nogueira, João Félix - 2020

This article examines the decision of the decision of the ECJ on SECIL (Case C-464/14), in which the 5th Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) delivered its decision on 24 November 2016, following the Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet of 27 January 2016. The case...

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