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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?

Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2012

Recent contributions have questioned whether biofuels policies actually lead to emissions reductions, and thus lower climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard. Opposed to most previous studies we...

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Systematic monetary policy and the macroeconomic effects of shifts in loan-to-value ratios

Bachmann, Ruediger; Rüth, Sebastian - 2017

What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...

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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic

Afonso, António (contributor); … - 2008

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Spend-and-tax : a panel data investigation for the EU

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

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Tax-co-ordination in Europe : assessing the first years of the EU-savings taxation directive

Hemmelgarn, Thomas; Nicodème, Gae͏̈tan J.A. - 2009

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

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Economic geography within and between European nations : the role of market potential and density across space and time

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009

In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...

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VAT on intra-community trade and bilateral micro revenue clearing in the EU

Breuer, Christian; Nam, Chang-woon - 2009

in the literature. Especially issues of bilateral VAT revenue clearing between EU countries, which arise from the … Commission's proposal, are highlighted. -- value added tax ; intra-EU trade ; bilateral micro clearing ; VAT fraud ; European …

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