Showing 1 - 10 of 54
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001252284
This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. We argue that a viable European fiscal union can be constructed without joint liability for public debt or a centralized government with a large common budget. Such a fiscal union should combine elements of market discipline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431564
10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508110
We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375679
decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781604
The joint Intereconomics/CEPS conference focused on income convergence among EU countries and within specific countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987566
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987570
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441208
This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper finds that the re-insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200279
affected the cushioning of income shocks in the Euro zone and the EU-27 in the period 2007-2014. We propose a new summary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154947