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Health care reform : separating insurance from income redistribution

Breyer, Friedrich; Haufler, Andreas - 2000 - Final version

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The …

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The EMU consolidation game - or: does 3.0 really mean 3.0?

Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998

Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...

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EMU and fiscal discipline : the end of the depreciation threat

Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998

Are the characteristics of the exchange rate regime relevant for the degree of fiscal discipline? What are the conclusions for fiscal behavior in Europe after the transition to EMU? These are the central questions that are analyzed in this paper from a theoretical point of view. After a general...

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European Monetary Union reform preferences of French and German parliamentarians

Blesse, Sebastian; Boyer, Pierre C.; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2019

We analyze data from an author‐conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality, ideology, and personal characteristics. For European Monetary Union policies like...

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Cross-border banking in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2016

We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...

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Regional tax coordination and foreign direct investment

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2003

This paper analyses the effects of a regionally coordinated corporate income tax in a model with three active countries, one of which is not part of the union, and a globally mobile firm. We show that regional tax coordination can lead to two types of welfare gain. First, for investments that...

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European Monetary Union reform preferences of French and German parliamentarians

Blesse, Sebastian; Boyer, Pierre C.; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2017

This study analyzes results from an original survey of members of the French and German parliaments (Assemblée Nationale, Sénat and Bundestag) on economic policies and institutions of the Eurozone. We find that French politicians are significantly more supportive of Eurobonds, a European...

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Do fiscal rules constrain fiscal policy? : a meta-regression-analysis

Heinemann, Friedrich; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; Yeter, … - 2016

We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules. Based on 30 studies published in the last decade, we offer a consensus estimate with respect to the level of statistical significance, provide suggestive evidence for the effect size, and identify study...

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The political economy of EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000

The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The … present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in … post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to …

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Tacit collusion under destination- and origin-based commodity taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2000

The paper employs a standard model of dynamic price competition to study how international principles of value-added taxation affect the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into each other's home market and tax rates differ across...

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