infrastructure facilitates deep integration and can help to spur growth in Latin America’s sub-regional groupings. But policy … C oordination of public expenditure in transport infrastructure: analysis and policy ….......................................................49 Coordination of public expenditure in transport infrastructure: analysis and policy perspectives for Latin America …

European countries. We apply modern panel data techniques to the period 1970-2006, and we use three alternative dependent … variables in a growth regression: economic growth, total factor productivity and labour productivity. Our results are able to … social security and health issues in growth and the labour market …

Who’s ready for EU enlargement? Katinka Barysch and Heather Grabbe November 2002 Centre for European Reform 29 Tufton … include Profiting from EU enlargement (July 2001), and, as co-author, Europe after September 11 th (December 2001), Germany … public support for EU membership through referenda, and parliamentary votes. Enlargement will change the Union dramatically …

.................................................................................................................... 102 V. Fiscal rules and countercyclical policy: Frank Ramsey meets Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Evan Tanner …............................................................................ 9 II. Revisiting the stability and growth pact: grand design or internal adjustment? Marco Buti, Sylvester C … budget balance for the prospective analysis of fiscal policy..... 141 E. Final considerations …

Moscow and Brussels 15 . Russia perceives itself not as a periphery of the EU-led integration, but as another core, a self …. The EU policy has been in this regard a success because it ended in Estonia and Latvia dropping their territorial claims … that may be beneficial for the EU. “Dimensionalism” thus becomes a new type of a policy of accommodation and reformation …

with the European structural and cohesion policy. Under this directive, the EU provides overall ¤347 billion for the period …. 1 sidering a regional and national policy competition, it might be questionable if the way paved by the EU is efficient … unilateral or regional R&D and innovation policy affect the locational competi- tion? 5) Do bilateral competing regional or …

that monetary integration is not a stand alone project, but is preceded by the EU enlargement and its obligation to adopt …European Monetary Union (EMU) and its enlargement to prospective members in central and eastern Europe is a politically … enlargement of the eurozone depends on these institutions and, thus, increases the costs of failure. On the other hand, a …

cushioning the short-term costs of Ezoneplus. -- labour market ; social policies ; welfare economics ; EU-enlargement ; EU …This report discusses both the reshaping of certain policy areas and the socio-political repercussions an Eastward … enlargement of the euro-zone may have. The focus lies on the potential for social conflict enhanced by the enlargement process and …

that monetary integration is not a stand alone project, but is preceded by the EU enlargement and its obligation to adopt …European Monetary Union (EMU) and its enlargement to prospective members in central and eastern Europe is a politically … enlargement of the eurozone depends on these institutions and, thus, increases the costs of failure. On the other hand, a …

Income Taxation, Outsourcing and Policy Cooperation in a Dynamic Economy Thomas Aronsson Umeå University, Sweden …. 269 Optimal Income Taxation, Outsourcing and Policy Cooperation in a Dynamic Economy* Abstract This paper … investments. 6 Aronsson and Sjögren (2004) have considered coordinated policy reforms in terms of the marginal taxation …