In diesem Diskussionspapier werden Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung zu den Auswirkungen der EU-Osterweiterung auf den EU-Haushalt im Agrarbereich vorgestellt. Die Berechnungen wurden mit dem am IAMO entwickelten partialen Gleichgewichtsmodell 'Central and Eastern European Countries Agricultural...

This article provides an overview of the main models of fiscal policy followed by the former communist countries, which today belong to the European Union. After a detailed analysis of the structure of revenues and expenses made by each of these states, the article reviews its compliance with...

This article provides an overview of the main models of fiscal policy followed by the former communist countries, which today belong to the European Union. After a detailed analysis of the structure of revenues and expenses made by each of these states, the article reviews its compliance with...

Among economic policy questions remaining without a definitive response perhaps none are as contentious as the future of direct taxation within the European Union. In this paper I intend to express my opinion regarding the issue of Tax Harmonization versus Tax Competition which has been globally...

Starting from the objectives and the status of European tax harmonization and based on the research literature's studies, the paper formulates its own arguments pro tax competition and con total fiscal harmonization, with regard to direct taxation, by responding to some key questions: "Have...

This article investigates the potential contribution of a supranational fiscal automatic stabilisation mechanism to the architecture of European fiscal policy. Having briefly reviewed the literature on the subject, we report on a simulation of such a mechanism – on the basis of the one...

Starting from the objectives and the status of European tax harmonization and based on the research literature's studies, the paper formulates its own arguments pro tax competition and con total fiscal harmonization, with regard to direct taxation, by responding to some key questions: "Have...

Die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank steckt in der Klemme. Die konjunkturelle Entwicklung im Euroraum ist so unterschiedlich, dass eine weitere Senkung des einheitlichen Zinses nur wenigen Ländern gerecht werden würde. Der Beitrag diskutiert, ob die EZB im Rahmen ihrer...

Am 25. März 2015 war der Präsident der Deutschen Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, im Rahmen der »Münchner Seminare« der CESifo Group und der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Gast. Sein Vortrag zur Rolle der Finanzstabilität für die Geldpolitik ist hier dokumentiert.