the European Union (EU). For this purpose we use linked applied general equilibrium models (AGE) for eleven EU member …, employment and inflation in member countries, and the cost and benefits of a cooperative approach to adhere to a EU target of … quantify the economic impact for the, EU by introducing a EU-wide tradable permit system, free of charge and based on the …

greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well as on the level of member states … multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model for fourteen EU-member states. The major finding of the paper is that … EU economies allows smaller economies not to make full use of the advantages they get through the ability …

differentiated permit schemes, evaluating the U.S. Acid Rain and RECLAIM Program, and considering the setting in the EU-15 countries … addressed adequately by a differentiated bundle of countermeasures. The general economic impact of an EU-wide permit scheme is …

impacts on the EU. The methodological framework used is based on a multi-country and multi-sectoral computable general … equilibrium model for eleven EU-member states. The emphasis of the analysis lies on the institutional setting of a carbon dioxide … findings of the paper can be summarized as follows: 1) There is some potential for a double dividend in the EU. 2) Coordination …

Ideally a new reform of the EU trade regime for bananas (COMB) should be equipped in a way that it makes a long … introduce an innovative model - auctioning producers' offers in the EU. Issues concerning the auction design and its GATT …, the EU should also introduce - in addition to an auction of producers' offers - social and ecological labels in the banana …

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 …. -- Fiscal sustainability ; EU ; panel cointegration …

, 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 … spend-and-tax strategy, implying adjustments of fiscal behaviour. -- panel causality ; fiscal policy ; EU …

This paper reviews the economic effects of the EU Savings Taxation Directive. The Directive aims at enabling taxation …