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EU banks rating assignments: Is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...

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Fiscal policies and business cycles in an enlarged euro area

Staehr, Karsten - 2007

This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future members from Central and Eastern Europe. For the sample period 1995-2005, the fiscal balance exhibits less inertia and is more counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European...

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Catching-up and inflation in Europe: Balassa-Samuelson, Engel's law and other Culprits

Égert, Balázs - 2010

This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of...

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Europe agreements and trade balance: Evidence from four new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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Fiscal and migration competition

Razîn, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - 2010

It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a 'race to the bottom'. This result may indeed hold in the case of factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor...

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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries

Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …, higher taxes and larger economic burden represented by the minimum wage decrease employment and activity rate. Moreover …

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Voting in the European Union: Central Europe's lost voice

Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...

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Reforming pensions in Europe: economic fundamentals and political factors

Schneider, Ondřej - 2009

This paper analyzes pension reforms in Europe and their determinants. As pension reforms are intrinsically difficult to define and pinpoint, we introduce an alternative measure of pension reforms by comparing long-term forecasts of pension expenditures for seventeen European countries. The...

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