, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a … spend-and-tax strategy, implying adjustments of fiscal behaviour. -- panel causality ; fiscal policy ; EU …

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France … deficit ; external imbalance ; real exchange rates ; EU ; OECD …

-term yields ; EU ; financial integration ; panel cointegration ; bootstrap …

countries (CEECs), a topic that has gained attention as the newest EU members approach monetary union. Our meta-analysis of 35 …

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

agricultural sector, pay less. However, in the EU, an adjustment of net payments to changes in the actual importance of the spe …

We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …. -- Fiscal sustainability ; EU ; panel cointegration …