Die Studien- und Forschungseinrichtung Notre Europe wurde am 5. Juli 1996 als eingetragener Verein gegründet (veröffentlicht im Amtsblatt der französischen Republik am 21. August 1996). Das Ziel von Notre Europe ist es, Studien, Forschung und Ausbildung zur Geschichte, Zivilisation und den...

Die Studien- und Forschungseinrichtung Notre Europe wurde am 5. Juli 1996 als eingetragener Verein gegründet (veröffentlicht im Amtsblatt der französischen Republik am 21. August 1996). Das Ziel von Notre Europe ist es, Studien, Forschung und Ausbildung zur Geschichte, Zivilisation und den...

.... Strategic evaluations are interested in the overall relevance and coherence of EU interventions. They have a dual objective to provide accountability and promote learning. Most importantly, they seek to generate knowledge to help decision-makers to improve development policy, programming...

Monitoring and forecasting price developments in the euro area is essential in the light of the second pillar of the ECBu0092s monetary policy strategy. This study analyses whether the forecasting accuracy of forecasting aggregate euro area inflation can be improved by aggregating forecasts of...

The study analyses macroeconomic policy-making in the European Union and the role of the European Parliament in it. There are three parts to the study. The first is concerned with policy-making procedures. The second analyses the implementation of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPGs) and...

We analyse the performance of budgetary and growth forecasts of all stability and convergence programmes submitted by EU member states over the last decade. Differences emerge for the bias in budgetary projections across countries. As a second step we explore whether economic, political and...

The paper presents an incomplete competition model (ICM), where inflation is determined jointly with unit labour cost growth. The ICM is estimated on data for the Euro area and evaluated against existing models, i.e. the implicit inflation equation of the Area Wide model (AWM) - cf. Fagan, Henry...

In this paper we propose a relatively simple procedure to predict Euro-zone industrial production using mostly data derived from the business surveys of the three major economies within the European Monetary Union (France, Germany, and Italy). The basic idea is that of estimating business...