Die EIoP ist ein referiertes, interdisziplinäres E-journal im Bereich der Forschung zur Europäischen Integration / Europaforschung. "Europäische Integration" ist dabei in einem weiten Sinne zu verstehen. Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus allen relevanten Disziplinen, insbesondere aus den...

The EMU accession countries are obliged to fulfill the Maastricht convergence criteria prior to entering the EMU. This paper uses a DSGE model of a two-sector small open economy, to address the following question: How do the Maastricht convergence criteria modify optimal monetary policy in an...

Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro’s effect on financial integration using data on bilateral banking linkages among twenty industrial countries in...

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...

Diese IW-Analyse untersucht, welche institutionelle Architektur nötig ist, um den Euroraum dauerhaft zu stabilisieren. In der öffentlichen Debatte wird zunehmend behauptet, die Krise habe gezeigt, dass die Europäische Währungsunion (EWU) ohne mehr fiskalische Integration nicht zukunftsfähig...

Ohne das der Begriff ‚europäisches Sozialmodell’ exakt definiert ist, wird er in der politischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskussion inzwischen wie selbstverständlich gebraucht. Im Kontext mit der Errichtung des Binnenmarktes und den ersten Vorbereitungen zur Errichtung einer Europäischen...

In 1999, eleven European countries formed the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); they abandoned their national currencies and adopted a new common currency, the euro. Several recent papers argue that the introduction of the euro has led (by itself) to a sizable and statistically significant...

In the previous decades, the European Union (EU) has succeeded in integrating new member countries, in economic and in political respects. Three main reasons lie behind this successful integration process: First, the solidarity of richer EU members with their poorer counterparts, second, the...

In this paper we empirically study the preferences of European citizens concerning the allocation of powers between EU and the Member States using Eurobarometer data from 1995 to 2003. Descriptive analysis highlights a ranking of countries according to their level of Europeanism, and a quite...