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Our Federalism Is Not Europe’s : It's Becoming Argentina’s
Greve, Michael - 2012
In some ways, a 2012 symposium on “Dilemmas of State Debt” may seem a bit behind the news curve. At the end of 2010, municipal bond markets were in a deep funk. Analysts predicted that countless municipalities and perhaps one or more of the United States might default on their debt...
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Drowned by numbers? : designing an EU-wide unimployment insurance
Farvaque, Étienne; Huart, Florence - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492044
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Unemployment Duration and the Interactions between Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance
Pellizzari, Michele - 2005
The existing studies of unemployment benefit and unemployment duration suggest that reforms that lower either the level … or the duration of benefits should reduce unemployment. Despite the large number of such reforms implemented in Europe in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068269
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Unemployment Insurance in Europe : Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …
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Synthesising good practices in fiscal federalism : key recommendations from 15 years of country surveys
Forman, Kass; Dougherty, Sean M.; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2020
The design of intergovernmental fiscal relations can help to ensure that tax and spending powers are assigned in a way to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Decentralisation can enable sub-central governments to provide better public services for households and firms, while it...
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Revenue for EMU : a contribution to the debate on fiscal union
Iara, Anna - 2016
In the wake of the euro area crisis, the debate on instruments to deepen economic integration among its members has intensified, among others putting forward a fiscal stabilization capacity for EMU members. Contributions made so far to further this idea have mostly concentrated on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436156
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A fiscal capacity for the euro area : lessons from existing fiscal-federal systems
Burriel, Pablo; Chronis, Panagiotis; Freier, Maximilian; … - 2020
After the financial and economic crisis in Europe, a broad consensus has emerged that a stronger fiscal dimension may be needed to complete the architecture of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This paper analyses the performance of interregional transfers in existing fiscal-federal systems,...
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EU regional policy : vertical fiscal externalities and matching grants
Fenge, Robert; Wrede, Matthias - 2004
Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402586
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Fiscal Federalism : US History for Architects of Europe's Fiscal Union
Henning, C. Randall - 2012
European debates over reform of the fiscal governance of the euro area frequently reference fiscal federalism in the United States. The "fiscal compact" agreed by the European Council during 2011 provided for the introduction of, among other things, constitutional rules or framework laws known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112640
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EU Regional Policy : Vertical Fiscal Externalities and Matching Grants
Fenge, Robert; Wrede, Matthias - 2021
Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments among member states are unknown. However, logrolling and redistributive policies are substitutes. This paper considers the EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319421