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mutant of the old EU-15, not to mention the original EEC. The mutation pressures to which the EU is exposed today are to a … the other hand, the heterogeneity of EU-27 impedes the establishment of a Single Market for services. Many of the same … people who opposed the original (Bolkestein) General Services Directive also maintain that the EU should be much more than a …
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Membership in a common currency area is thought to promote economic stability by facilitating macroeconomic convergence, but a country might give up important monetary policy tools that could help stabilize its economy following a shock. The effect of a common currency on macroeconomic...
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We propose using a simple Taylor rule to evaluate business cycle convergence of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland with the Eurozone. Our findings indicate an ongoing convergence of those CEE countries to the Eurozone, but with instabilities and heterogeneity between the countries....
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Länder werden wechselkurspolitische Optionen vor und nach einem EU-Beitritt untersucht. Ein zentrales Ziel ist es, eine … angemessene und länderindividuelle Strategie für die Währungsintegration der EU-Aspiranten herauszuarbeiten, die zugleich unter … Grundsatz nicht angemessen ist. Zugleich wird auf die Notwendigkeit verwiesen, die rechtsverbindlichen Vorgaben der EU in …
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In the euro area, there is mixed evidence that the GDP per capita of lower-income economies has been catching up with that of higher-income economies since the start of monetary union. The significant real convergence performance of some of the most recent members contrasts with that of the...
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The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...
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The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the …
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