that the current EU budget setting is, at best, neutral with respect to the EU-wide long-term growth potential and may …This paper analyses the European budget and the position of the ten new member states. We argue that the EU budget … should be reconsidered, as the Union has expanded to 27 member states and has become more heterogeneous. The budget …

This paper measures the net redistributive impact of the EU budget. It finds that for every € 1,000 difference in … income per capita across countries, € 9 is offset by lower contributions to the budget and € 3 is offset by higher … expenditures by the budget. The overall equalising effect is small (1.1%) and mainly depends on the revenue side, in particular on …

We show that the effects of inflation on growth change substantially as the inflation rate rises. Moreover the … inflation first begins to seriously negatively affect growth is around 8% for industrial economies but 3% or less for developing … countries. Marginal growth costs for developing countries then decline significantly above 50% inflation. Failure to account for …

) that de-growth is necessary, ii) that the market economy is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate …

We provide a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between public debt and GDP growth in the postwar advanced … economies. We use the timing of changes in public debt and growth to account for endogeneity, and find little evidence of a …