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Reforming the financing of the European Union : a proposal

Fuest, Clemens; Heinemann, Friedrich; Ungerer, Martin - 2015

In this paper we propose a reform of the EU financing system. The two most important elements of our proposal are i) to … make the contribution of taxpayers to the EU budget more visible by showing an EU VAT share on receipts and ii) to increase … the power of the European Parliament in the determination of the structure of EU expenditures by limiting the multiannual …

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FIRE for the euro : a strategy for stabilizing government bond markets

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2012

The aggravating turbulences in the market for euro government bonds have so far precluded any recovery from the debt crisis. The key problem is that structural reforms and consolidation measures have long impact lags and are not able to stop an acute self-fulfilling crisis of confidence. In the...

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Short and Long-Run Behaviour of Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields

Afonso, António - 2010

This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...

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Financial Frictions and Inflation Differentials in a Monetary Union

Hristov, Nikolay - 2010

This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation differentials can be explained by cross-country differences concerning the characteristics of financial markets. Our results suggest that empirically plausible degrees of...

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Target Balances and the German Financial Account in Light of the European Balance-of-Payments Crisis

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013

As shown in Sinn and Wollmershäuser (2012a), during the European balance-of-payments crisis, inter-governmental credit and Target credit granted by core-country central banks have replaced private international capital flows in financing the crisis countries' current account deficits, and even...

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The Interest Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area During the Global Financial Crisis

Hristov, Nikolay - 2013

This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro–area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest–rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding...

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Spend-and-Tax : A Panel Data Investigation for the EU

Afonso, António - 2009

, 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 …

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Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through : Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries

Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2017

In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed further light on the role of microeconomic factors vs. macroeconomic factors in influencing the...

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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2008

Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …

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3-Step Analysis of Public Finances Sustainability : The Case of the European Union

Afonso, António - 2008

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 …

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