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There is a widespread perception among the public and policy-makers that EMU carries one-way pressures for enhanced flexibility in the labour market. We discuss the theoretical basis of this by examining four mechanisms through which the establishment of the common currency and the functioning...
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Constitution and the European constitutional theory were tested. A number of rather serious issues were raised concerning the … interpretation of the Constitution, the relationship between national Constitution, EU legal order and international law and the … Constitution itself, either through informal constitutional changes or through the formal amendment process. The main finding of …
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Constitution. The 1987 Constitution did little to change these provisions in the midst of economic reforms that were undertaken to … constitution have played the role of iron economic laws because of their relative permanence in the legal framework. These …
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's constitution. Using historical data dating back to the 19th century and applying a difference-in-difference approach we find that … instrumenting the probability of having budget rules on de jure constraints on changing the constitution. This and other tests …
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The challenge to the Affordable Care Act was waged on two fronts. The first front was the constitutionalist front. Challengers claimed that it was unprecedented for Congress to compel people to engage in commerce, and purchase health insurance. However, the second front in this battle is much...
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The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
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The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants to identify the causal effects of the...
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The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
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Despite a significant amount of research, literature continues to produce contrasting predictions on how, and when, public bureaucracies may enhance or constrain policy effectiveness. On the one hand, developmental state research has stressed the importance of bureaucrats' autonomy from...
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