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Economic retirement age and lifelong learning : a theoretical model with heterogeneous labor, biased technical change and international sourcing

Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Krieger, Tim; Meyer, … - 2016

The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age resulting in permanent non-employability of older...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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Monetary union, even higher integration, or back to national currencies?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016

This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...

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The economics of investor protection : ISDS versus national treatment : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2015

Kohler, Wilhelm; Stähler, Frank - 2016 - Version of February 16, 2016

This paper scrutinizes the effects of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) and national treatment provisions in a two-period model where foreign investment is subject to domestic regulation and a holdup problem. It shows that ISDS can mitigate the holdup problem and increases aggregate...

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Reconciling insurance with market discipline : a blueprint for a European fiscal union

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2016

This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. We argue that a viable European fiscal union can be constructed without joint liability for public debt or a centralized government with a large common budget. Such a fiscal union should combine elements of market discipline...

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Tackling spillovers by taxing corporate income in the European Union at source

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2016 - This version 18 February 2016

This paper surveys and evaluates the corporation tax (CT) systems of the Member States of the European Union on the basis of a comprehensive taxonomy of actual and potential regimes, which have as their base either profits, profits and interest, or economic rents. The current regimes give rise...

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Revenue for EMU : a contribution to the debate on fiscal union

Iara, Anna - 2016

In the wake of the euro area crisis, the debate on instruments to deepen economic integration among its members has intensified, among others putting forward a fiscal stabilization capacity for EMU members. Contributions made so far to further this idea have mostly concentrated on the...

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Explaining the EUA-CER spread

Gronwald, Marc; Hintermann, Beat - 2016

Because of a link between the EU ETS and the Kyoto Flexible Mechanisms, the emission certificates traded on these … spread using a theoretical model that combines three features: A binding limit for the use of Kyoto offsets within the EU ETS … informational frictions governing the use of offsets within the EU ETS. …

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The Euro-Dollar exchange rate : is it fundamental?

Camarero Olivas, Mariam; Ordóñez, Javier; Tamarit … - 2002

In this paper we have applied two approaches to the study of the dollar real exchange rate in relation with the Euro-area currencies. First, using dynamic panel techniques, we estimate an error correction model for the dollar real exchange rate versus seven developed countries, four of them...

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Money can't buy EU love : European funds and the Brexit referendum

Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Tunali, Çiğdem Börke - 2016

favor of remaining in the EU. Somewhat surprisingly, the intensity of immigration from the EU is positively correlated with …

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