This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …

between the two imbalances for each country for the period 1970-2007, and for different EU and OECD country groupings. The … balances. -- Budget balance ; external balance ; 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 …

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 …

Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members. -- Trade …