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The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The … present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in … post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to …
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not economic necessity have dictated the consolidation in the EU during the 90s. …
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This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level. We analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the contract, and the project completion. We point out...
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The establishment of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) is one of the important issues in the academic debate on a viable constitution for the European Monetary Union (EMU). Yet the topic seems to be taboo in official reform contributions to the debate. Against this backdrop, the...
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element of a promising EU membership strategy. Besides that, the potential role of a stabilization fund is discussed that …
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Since the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991 expectations on the new European currency could possibly influence European interest rates. The focus of this paper is both on the theoretical and empirical analysis of the link between European Monetary Union (EMU) and German...
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Die Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB) mobilisiert in quantitativ bedeutendem Ausmaß Finanzmittel für EG-Politikfelder außerhalb des EG-Haushalts. Die von der Bonität des Schuldners abhängige implizite Zinssubvention ist wohlfahrtstheoretisch nicht zu rechtfertigen. Es ist zu vermuten,...
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Die Bestimmungen zur europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (WWU) im Unionsvertrag haben die Anreize für öffentliche Verschuldung verändert. Die Analyse zeigt, daß trotz der Bemühungen, die nationale Eigenverantwortlichkeit zu bewahren, nicht mit einer effektiven Disziplinierung...
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