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By applying the concepts of institutional and constitutional economics, this paper addresses the question to what extent a reform of the stability pact will be efficient and appropriate. The starting point of the analysis is the assumption that the stability pact will yield disciplining effects...
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The paper adresses the need for more flexibility in the integration process of the European Union after its recent eastward enlargement. Due to the increasing number of decision-makers and the increasing heterogeneity of economic structures, financial constraints, societal preferences, and...
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The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 heterogeneous member states. A third possibility is now offered by...
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Der Abwertungstrend des Euro hält nun schon seit zweieinhalb Jahren an. Wie kann der anhaltende Niedergang erklärt werden? Renate Ohr, Joachim Starbatty und Peter Bofinger nehmen Stellung
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Seit der zweiten Hälfte der 90er Jahre wird das Wachstum in Ostdeutschland zunehmend vom Außenhandel getragen. Dabei lagen in den vergangenen zehn Jahren die Exportzuwächse der neuen Bundesländer – ausgehend von einem niedrigen Niveau – deutlich über den Zuwächsen in Westdeutschland....
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Die Europäische Währungsunion besteht mittlerweile seit acht Jahren, und der Euro erweist sich derzeit als stabile Währung. Ist die Währungsunion ein Musterbeispiel erfolgreicher europäischer Integrationspolitik? Haben sich die Erwartungen, die mit diesem lange geplanten Integrationsprojekt...
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Against the background of the euro-sceptic view many German economists expressed during the 1990ies and the traditional as well as modern debate on the optimum currency area the outcomes of the first ten years of the European Monetary Union are analysed. It is checked to what extent the concerns...
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The Stability and Growth Pact is one of the constituent pillars of the European Monetary Union. Though, meanwhile it is obvious that it will not be able to limit fiscal deficits of the member states. For this reason in this paper Coase's thinking in institutional alternatives is applied to find...
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