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The Schengen Agreement has guaranteed unchecked travel across internal EU borders since 1995. Has it also facilitated …
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The sheer size of the EU and US economies combined suggests substantial economic benefits from eliminating tariffs … demonstrate gains on the level of GDP per capita from 0.5 to 4.0% for the EU and a similar span for the US. Almost all of the … variety, and higher productivity. Virtually all EU member states benefit, while TTIP outsiders may lose. Estimates of job …
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The currently negotiated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU and the United States of America … offset each other in Norway. A comprehensive agreement between the EU and the US would lead to an increase in Norwegian GDP …
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and lowered non-tariff barriers. This has led to trade creation within Europe and to trade diversion between EU countries … heterogeneity across sectors and countries. To avoid the political costs associated with weaker intra-EU ties, Europe should deepen …
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This paper analyses the European budget and the position of the ten new member states. We argue that the EU budget … that the current EU budget setting is, at best, neutral with respect to the EU-wide long-term growth potential and may … actually hamper growth in the majority of the EU countries if the distortionary nature of taxation is taken into account …
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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 due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also to … together and that their influence is thus fairly limited. We argue that as the EU seemingly lacks energy to implement further …
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early 2000's both in quot;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU member states. We estimate effects of labour market institutions on …;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU members …
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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...
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This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries refrain from using different tax rates in different sectors of the economy. We study the impact of one country leaving the union. We show that the introduction of discriminatory...
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This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries refrain from using different tax rates in different sectors of the economy. We study the impact of one country leaving the union. We show that the introduction of discriminatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794033