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Current account imbalances and structural adjustment in the Euro area : how to rebalance competitiveness

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2009

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...

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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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Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? : new evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2009

Nowadays, it is widely believed that greater disclosure and clarity over policy may lead to greater predictability of central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the information provided by a Taylor rule model in which...

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Does ECB communication help in predicting its interest rate decisions?

Jansen, David-Jan (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2006

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Application of regionally varying additionality degrees in the practice of EU cohesion policy

Nam, Chang-woon; Wamser, Georg - 2010

national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with … regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions, however, the EU contribution has reached 85% of total costs. This … additionality degrees is largely in line with EU cohesion policy goals. Most notably, higher shares of EU funds are provided to …

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Measuring synchronicity and co-movement of business cycles with an application to the euro area

Mink, Mark (contributor); Jacobs, Jan (contributor); … - 2007

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The importance of being vigilant : has ECB communication influenced Euro area inflation expectations?

Jansen, David-Jan (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2007

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Interest rate linkages in EMU countries : a rolling threshold vector error-correction approach

Poghosyan, Tigran (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2007

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Does money matter in the ECB strategy? : New evidence based on ECB communication

Berger, Helge (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor); … - 2006

We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...

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Measurement of value added tax evasion in selected EU countries on the basis of national accounts data

Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger; Schaden, Barbara - 2001

The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of … Single Market has further encouraged firms and households evasive behaviour in paying value added taxes in the EU Member …. This study primarily deals with the quantification of the VAT evasion and fraud in the EU. On the basis of the national …

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