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The financial crisis of 2007-2009 led to a renewed increase in government deficits and debts in many EU countries … the internal market of the EU. This would increase the wedge between members and non-members of the euro area …
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We develop a model of limit order trading in which some traders have better information on future price volatility. As limit orders have option-like features, this information is valuable for limit order traders. We solve for informed and uninformed limit order traders' bidding strategies in...
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This paper provides a study of bond yield differentials among EU government bonds issued between 1993 and 2005 on the … by EU countries and Germany or the USA contain risk premiums which increase with fiscal imbalances and depend negatively …
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procedures in EU countries on public finances. It briefly describes the main pattern of budgetary institutions and their … determinants across the EU 15 member states. Empirical evidence for the time period 1985-2004 suggests that the centralisation of …
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Fiscal rules, such as the Excessive Deficit Procedure and the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), aim at constraining government behavior. Milesi-Ferretti (2003) develops a model in which governments circumvent such rules by reverting to creative accounting. The amount of this depends on the...
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This report argues in favour of an economics-based approach to Article 82, in a way similar to the reform of Article 81 and merger control. In particular, we support an effects-based rather than a form-based approach to competition policy. Such an approach focuses on the presence of...
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such rules in Japan and in the EU. Comparing the performance of fiscal policy in the 1980s and 1990s until 2003, we find … rule of the Maastricht Treaty had a significant impact on political budget cycles in the EU, but did little to constrain … fiscal rule in the EU has vanished. Next, we discuss the importance of budgetary institutions for the effectiveness of fiscal …
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critically assess the widely used projections of the Working Group on Ageing Populations (AWG) of the EU's Economic Policy …
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