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European Fiscal Union: What Is It? Does It Work? And Are There Really 'No Alternatives'?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone - either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331439
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Fiscal behaviour in the European Union : rules, fiscal decentralization and government indebtedness
Afonso, António; Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2009
We assess the fiscal behaviour in the European Union countries for the period 1990-2005 via the responsiveness of budget balances to several determinants. The results show that the existence of effective fiscal rules, the degree of public spending decentralization, and the electoral cycle can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866536
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The impact of numerical expenditure rules on budgetary discipline over the cycle
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Rother, … - 2010
mitigated by numerical expenditure rules. These hypotheses are tested against data from a panel of EU Member States. Our key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971314
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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of an EU tax-benefit system
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012
study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545267
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European fiscal union : what is it?, does it work?, and are there really ‘no alternatives’?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009525226
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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2015
We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375679
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Transmission of government spending shocks in the Euro area : time variation and driving forces
Kirchner, Markus; Cimadomo, Jacopo; Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2010
This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380027
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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of an EU tax-benefit system
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012
study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667120
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The impact of expenditure rules on budgetary discipline over the cycle
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Rother, … - In: Applied economics 44 (2012) 25/27, pp. 3287-3296
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009617939
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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of a European tax-benefit system and fiscal equalisation mechanism
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009719330