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, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …
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with the (in)effectiveness of a government’s healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …
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International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired … significant and that swift and successful implementation of e-government systems in the future will require additional energy …, willingness and effort for systematic, comprehensive and intensive coordination between the various levels of government. This …
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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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The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...
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This paper discusses lessons that other regions could learn from European Union's effort to implement carbon pricing through EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS). Our lessons are, first of all, that a cap-and-trade system like EU ETS is very helpful in guaranteeing a credible and binding...
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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...
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We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the 1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently...
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particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond … exposure of banks to the debt issued by the national government. Our results suggest that euro area crisis countries' banks …
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Preferences about the vertical distribution of power in federal systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher-level governments can plausibly raise demands for exit strategies and a devolution of power. But integration, for instance delegating power...
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