We provide a first attempt to include off-balance sheet, implicit insurance to SIFIs into a consistent assessment of fiscal sustainability, for 27 countries of the European Union. We first calculate tax gaps à la Blanchard (1990) and Blanchard et al. (1990). We then introduce two alternative...

This article examines the modern role of local authorities in the new Balkan and European environment as well as the institutions, means and experiences of cooperation among local authorities agencies of the FYR of Macedonia and those of Balkan and European countries. Based on the results of a...

The author provides an overview of carbon markets and explains how emissions trading can be important in encouraging the reduction of CO2 emissions in an efficient manner. He describes the key steps in establishing a cap-and-trade system, and reviews the European experiences with emissions...

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...

Seit einigen Monaten wird in der Fachliteratur und den Medien eine teils heftige Diskussion um die sogenannten Target2-Salden geführt. Vordergründig geht es dabei um ein Verrechnungssystem der Notenbanken der Eurozone. Laut Hans-Werner Sinn, der die Debatte angestoßen hat, haben die in diesem...

Die Staatsschuldenkrise in der Europäischen Union hat wieder einmal deutlich gemacht, wie nötig Frühindikatoren sind, die rechtzeitig drohende Ungleichgewichte und Schwächen in einzelnen Volkswirtschaften anzeigen. Michael Heise stellt hier eine makroökonomische Scorecard - den Euro Monitor...