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What should fiscal councils do?
Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011
The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...
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Financial systems in financial crisis : an analysis of banking systems in the EU
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 49 (2014) 2, pp. 56-87
UK, Italy and Spain. Furthermore, policy proposals which could change the role of the financial system to better serve …
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Recovery of US economy continues
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 22 (1987) 2, pp. 103-104
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Labour mobility in the EU : dynamics, patterns and policies
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 49 (2014) 3, pp. 116-158
the UK, Poland, Germany and Spain. It also examines a number of its aspects that have important political and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358757
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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National differences in telecommunications R&D in Europe
Schnöring, Thomas - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 26 (1991) 3, pp. 128-138
The isolation of national telecommunications markets in the past has meant that pronounced differences remain among the R&D systems operating in the countries of the European Community. The intended opening up of public procurement markets by the end of 1992 could therefore lead to substantial...
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State intervention on the market for natural damage insurance in Europe
Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. We then draw conclusions, how the market for insurance against natural disasters …
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The great devolution of powers bazaar
Blockmans, Steven - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 49 (2014) 5, pp. 242-243
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426153
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Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …
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Fiscal policy sustainability, economic cycle and financial crises : the case of the GIPS
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah; Milas, Costas - 2012
We extend previous work on the sustainability of the government's intertemporal budget constraint by allowing for non-linear adjustment of the fiscal variables, conditional on (i) the sign of budgetary disequilibria and (ii) the phase of the economic cycle. Further, our endogenously estimated...
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