This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the response of output to fiscal consolidations and expansions in the small Euro-area open economies...

Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. It also features numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation

This book explores how British and German business associations formed their political attitudes towards Economic and Monetary Union between 1988 and 1998. With provocative argument and unique insight, it demonstrates how business associations are political entities in their own right, acting...

Problemstellung -- Problemstellung -- Theoretische Grundlagen -- Steuerwirkung -- Steuerwettbewerb -- Investitionsneutrale Besteuerung -- Effektivsteuersätze -- Bekannte Definitionen -- Die Zusammenführung der Definitionen -- Vergleich der Definitionen -- Steuerbelastungsvergleich -- Empirie...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- H. F. Zacher: Social Policy in the FRG - The Constitution of the Social: The "Social" as the Guiding Concept of Politics and Law -- Social Policy and the Social Post-War Germany: a Political and Legal History -- The FRG - a Difficult, Fractured, and Open Nation...

This book examines fiscal policy coordination in EMU and the required adjustments to national fiscal policies by EMU member states. The book shows that, in the process of Europeanization, national interests have had a major impact on the formation of fiscal policy coordination

EU-Entscheidungen bestimmen den unternehmerischen Alltag -- Entscheidungsträger in der Europäischen Union -- Unternehmensrelevante Aktivitäten des EU-Binnenmarktes -- EU-Wettbewerbspolitik und unternehmerische Pläne -- Weitere für Unternehmen wichtige EU-Aktivitäten --...