We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

between the two imbalances for each country for the period 1970-2007, and for different EU and OECD country groupings. The …

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France …

, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a …

highly asymmetric effects of European integration in favor of more developed EU members. …

) and the European Union (EU); an important policy application that has not been studied before due to lack of data. We … overcome this challenge by utilizing a new dataset on trade and production that covers all EU countries and all CEFTA members … joining the EU. The proposed methods can also be extended to ex-post analysis and are readily applicable to other applications …

We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995 … quantile regression results. Hence, human capital inside the EU is moving in search of higher cross-country earnings. …