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The EMS : achievements, current issues and directions for the future

Gros, Daniel; Thygesen, Niels - 1988

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Current account imbalances and structural adjustment in the Euro area : how to rebalance competitiveness

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2009

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850175

A new two-pillar strategy for the ECB

De Grauwe, Paul; Gros, Daniel - 2009

The ECB has been arguing in the past that since there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability, the pursuit of price stability is the best a central bank can do to also maintain financial stability. We argue that there is a potential trade-off between price stability and...

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Inter-temporal savings, current account dynamics and asymmetric shocks in a heterogeneous European Monetary Union

Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2010

In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...

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Alcohol taxation and regulation in the European Union

Cnossen, Sijbren (contributor) - 2006

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Europe's new border taxes

Cnossen, Sijbren; Verwaal, Ernst - 2001

Instead of abolishing internal border controls in 1993, the European Union (EU) replaced them with VAT and statistical …, 5 per cent of the value of their intra-EU trade. This figure is probably higher for other EU Member States. Obviously …, the costs constitute a (differentiated) border tax that impedes intra-EU trade. The paper analyses the determinants of the …

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How should tobacco be taxed in EU-accession countries?

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2001

affectsrevenue, tobacco consumption control, and EU competition. Thispaper examines the arguments and concludes that a …

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Fiscal divergence and current account imbalances in Europe

Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013

Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...

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The long arm of the European VAT, exemplified by the Dutch experience

Bettendorf, Leon; Cnossen, Sijbren - 2014

these design shortcomings, the EU VAT is in danger of becoming an anachronism compared with modern VATs elsewhere. This …

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Tackling spillovers by taxing corporate income in the European Union at source

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2016 - This version 18 February 2016

This paper surveys and evaluates the corporation tax (CT) systems of the Member States of the European Union on the basis of a comprehensive taxonomy of actual and potential regimes, which have as their base either profits, profits and interest, or economic rents. The current regimes give rise...

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