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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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M3 money demand and excess liquidity in the euro area
Dreger, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
Money growth in the euro area has exceeded its target since 2001. Likewise, recent empirical studies did not find evidence in favour of a stable long run money demand function. The equation appears to be increasingly unstable if more recent data are used. If the link between money balances and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726115
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Rational inattention, inflation developments and perceptions after the euro cash changeover
Ehrmann, Michael (contributor) - 2006
This paper uses the euro cash changeover to test theories of finite informationprocessing capacities on the side of consumers. It argues that the denomination of prices in a new currency has increased the information-processing requirements for consumers by more than for sellers, a wedge that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280660
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Investigating M3 money demand in the euro area : new evidence based on standard models
Dreger, Christian (contributor);  … - 2006
Monetary growth in the euro area has exceeded its target level especially since 2001. Likewise, recent empirical studies did not find evidence in favour of a stable long run relationship between the variables entering the money demand function. Instead the equation appears to be increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304393
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Hysteresis and persistence in the course of unemployment : the EU and US experience
Dreger, Christian (contributor);  … - 2006
We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by …. Hysteresis in EU unemployment is attributed to the idiosyncratic, but not to the common component. In contrast, idiosyncratic … component. These findings might reflect a lower degree of migration of the unemployed in the EU from starving into prosperous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304447
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Forecasting ECB monetary policy : accuracy is (still) a matter of geography
Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003305135
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How would formula apportionment in the EU affect the distribution and the size of the corporate tax base? : An analysis based on German multinationals
Fuest, Clemens (contributor); Hemmelgarn, Thomas (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyses the effects of introducing a common EU tax base with formula apportionment on the size of the EU … wide tax base and on the distribution of the tax base between the EU member countries. We use a combined dataset of … the firms in the sample. Our results suggest that due to border crossing loss-offset, the EU wide corporate tax base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339188
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
available at the level of EU NUTS1 and NUTS2 regions. In addition to the univariate measures, composite indicators based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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Price convergence in an enlarged internal market
Dreger, Christian; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; … - In: Eastern European economics 46 (2008) 5, pp. 57-68
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003797126
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Common and spatial drivers in regional business cycles
Artis, Michael J.; Dreger, Christian; Cholodilin, … - 2009
We examine real business cycle convergence for 41 euro area regions and 48 US states. Results obtained by a panel model with spatial correlation indicate that the relevance of common business cycle factors is rather stable over the past two decades in the euro area and the US. Ongoing business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807457