US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...

For a long time European Economic and Monetary Union was mainly considered an internal European issue and external consequences were largely ignored. In contrast to most previous analyses, this paper looks at a number of international implications of monetary union. It is argued that several...

A Opening Addresses -- I. Introduction -- IIA. Implications Monétaires de l’Intégration Financière Européenne -- IIB. Monetary Implications of European Financial Integration (English translation of Philippe Lagayette’s paper) -- III. The European Regulatory and Supervisory Framework --...

This collection of essays is a state-of-the-art analysis of key issues confronting the European Union. Identifying European economic integration as one of the defining features of modern international economics, the authors examine many aspects and consequences of this integration which remain...

1. Introduction -- 2. A Republican Concept of Corporate Ethics -- 3. Performance Centers in Public Administration -- 4. Economic and Monetary Union: Between Solidarity and Efficiency -- 5. The Drift of the Public Debt: Threat for Europe? The Italian Case -- 6. Stability Culture as a Precondition...

This is a collection of contributions from European central bankers concerned with different national monetary and fiscal policies in public sector management. Some of the chapters concentrate on individual national policies and then deal with issues raised by the convergence, which is part of...

This up-to-date and insightful book presents post-crisis scenarios for European regions with new methodologies and tools to support quantitative assessment and foresight. The aim is to develop regional forecasting methodologies and tools, appropriate to the regional-local scale but consistent...

1 The Regional Dimension of Globalization: Past Trends and Future Scenarios -- Part A: National and Regional Globalization Processes -- 2 The EU in the Global Economy -- 3 Globalization and the Reshaping of Regional Economies: Favoured Territories -- Part B: Globalization and Regional Economic...