Economic performance and stabilization policy in a monetary union with imperfect labor and goods' markets / Fabrizio Coricelli, Alex Cukierman, and Alberto Dalmazzo ; Discussant: Erkki Koskela -- Asymmetric transmission of monetary policy: what should the ECB do if one size does not fit all? /...

This paper deals with the design of voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are examined. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in...

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

Economic convergence of the new member states (NMS) of the EU towards the old EU countries (EU-15), not only in terms of real income, but also in nominal terms, is of paramount importance for the whole of the EU. We build a dynamic CGE model, starting from the Balassa-Samuelson two-sector...