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Sovereign Risk Premia : The Link between Fiscal Rules and Stability Culture

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2013

There is a growing empirical literature studying whether fiscal rules reduce borrowing costs. Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether these rules are effective genuinely or just because they mirror fiscal preferences of politicians and voters. In our analysis of European bond spreads,...

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Who's Afraid of an EU Tax and Why? - Revenue System Preferences in the European Parliament

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2008

The EU's revenue system is still typical for an organisation based on international cooperation and stands in contrast … to the Union's far advanced legislative and political role. This contrast feeds the debate on granting the EU an … autonomous tax source. Our contribution explores the factors which shape the acceptance of the EU tax option among European …

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European Monetary Union Reform Preferences of French and German Parliamentarians

Blesse, Sebastian - 2019

We analyze data from an author‐conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality, ideology, and personal characteristics. For European Monetary Union policies like...

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A Viable Insolvency Procedure for Sovereigns (VIPS) in the Euro Area

Fuest, Clemens - 2014

A mechanism to restructure the debt of an insolvent euro country is a missing element in the emerging institutional architecture of the euro area. The introduction of an insolvency proce-dure for sovereigns faces a dilemma: In the foreseeable future, its introduction would risk pushing Europe...

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Reconciling Insurance with Market Discipline : A Blueprint for a European Fiscal Union

Dolls, Mathias - 2015

This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. The proposal addresses the shortcomings of most other reform designs which do not offer a solution for insolvent or non-cooperative euro countries. We suggest a design which combines fiscal insurance with an orderly procedure to...

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Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Fiscal Policy? A Meta-Regression-Analysis

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2016

We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules. Based on 30 studies published in the last decade, we offer a consensus estimate with respect to the level of statistical significance, provide suggestive evidence for the effect size, and identify study...

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The Future of the European Fiscal Union : Survey Results from Members of National Parliaments in France, Italy and Germany

Blesse, Sebastian; Bordignon, Massimo; Boyer, Pierre; … - 2021

of three dimensions on EU and euro area fiscal reform preferences: nationality, political ideology, and populism. We …

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Dispelling the Shadow of Fiscal Dominance? Fiscal and Monetary Announcement Effects for Euro Area Sovereign Spreads in the Corona Pandemic

Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Helbig, Samuel; … - 2021

We use event study regressions to compare the impact of EU monetary versus fiscal policy announcements on government … bond spreads of ten euro member countries. Our motivation is to evaluate which of the two players – the ECB or the EU … only for the announcement of the ‘Next Generation EU’ program. In contrast, a temporary relaxation of European fiscal rules …

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The Political Economy of Euro Area Sovereign Debt Restructuring

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2021

The establishment of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) is one of the important issues in the academic debate on a viable constitution for the European Monetary Union (EMU). Yet the topic seems to be taboo in official reform contributions to the debate. Against this backdrop, the...

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Election Cycles in European Public Procurement

Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus - 2021

This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level. We analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the contract, and the project completion. We point out...

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