This paper focuses on ihe rationale behind fiscal solidarity. It is argued that, while at the national level the main aim of regional policies is to downsize the cost of labor market policies, the motivation behind EU transfers is less straightforward. Here, regional assistance should rather be...

Remunerar los archivos de caja en manos de los intermediarios financieros no es una práctica hoy en día habitual en las economías occidentales. Sin embargo, en Estados Unidos han comenzado a aparecer quienes defienden su uso como instrumento útil para implementar la polítiva monetaria. Se...

This report investigates monetary transmission in a monetary union of developing countries (West-African monetary union or Communauté Financière Africaine, CFA). This requires existing monetary transmission models to be adapted. Three econometric methods are applied to assess the impact of...