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EUROMOD and the development of EU social policy

Atkinson, Anthony B. (contributor) - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to set EUROMOD - the EU-wide tax and benefit model - in the context of the development of … EU social policy. It explores the relation between the rapidly evolving EU social inclusion process and investment in … with the historical background. It is only in this way that we can place in context the achievements of EU social policy …

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Economic, environmental and international trade effects of the EU directive on energy tax harmonization

Kohlhaas, Michael; Schumacher, Katja; Diekmann, Jochen; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In October 2003, the European Union introduced a Directive which widens the scope of the EU's minimum taxation system … EU candidate countries. In this paper, we analyze the effects of the EU energy tax harmonization with GTAP-E, a … the EU in May 2004. We investigate the effects of the tax harmonization on overall economic growth and sectoral …

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Trade specialisation and economic convergence : evidence from two eastern European countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2009

-à-vis the core EU member states (EU-15) over the period 1990-2006. Specifically, we focus on whether there is a shift towards …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824097

Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …

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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the euro area

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Onorante, Luca; Paesani, Paolo - 2009

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in...

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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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Risk attitudes and investment decisions across European countries : are women more conservative investors than men?

Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2009

This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment decisions. The analysis is based on micro-level data from large-scale surveys of private households in five European countries. In our analysis of investment decisions, we directly...

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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation : a cross-national perspective

Schmitt, Christian (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...

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Information sharing and cross-border entry in European banking

Giannetti, Caterina; Jentzsch, Nicola; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2010

and M&A) by using a new set of time series cross-section data for the EU-27 countries. We study how the presence of public …

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Is euro area money demand (still) stable? : cointegrated VAR versus single equation techniques

Belke, Ansgar; Czudaj, Robert - 2010

In this paper we present an empirically stable euro area money demand model. Using a sample period until 2009:2 shows that the current financial and economic crisis that started in 2007 does not appear to have any noticeable impact on the stability of the euro area money demand function. We also...

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