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Friends without benefits? : new EMU members and the "euro effect" on trade
Mika, Alina; Zymek, Robert - 2017
no evidence of a euro effect on trade flows among early euro adopters up to the year 2002. Second, this finding is robust … to extending the sample period to incorporate data up to 2013, covering five additional euro accessions. Third, while … there is no robust evidence of a euro effect, there is evidence that intra-EU trade flows have expanded faster than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597238
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Currency unions, trade, and heterogeneity
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018
How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867116
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The euro and inflation uncertainty in the European Monetary Union
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395399
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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641707
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763931
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Spend-and-tax : a panel data investigation for the EU
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009
Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend-and-tax causality for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861754
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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 of foreign interest payments received by individuals in accordance with the rules of their State of residence. The data suggest that the Directive, which is based on automatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861869
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International trade integration : a disaggregated approach
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2009
such as Technical Barriers to Trade. Trade integration is generally lower for countries that opted out of the Euro or did …-half of the growth in trade over the period 1999-2003 and are therefore a major driving force of the EU Single Market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820665
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850511
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VAT on intra-community trade and bilateral micro revenue clearing in the EU
Breuer, Christian; Nam, Chang-woon - 2009
This study discusses European Commission's recent proposal to combat VAT fraud by taxing intra-Community supplies at a common rate of 15%, accompanied by the internal correction of input-tax gap between an importer and his own national tax authority, which is caused by the national VAT rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883042