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The Political Economy of Corporate Tax Harmonization - Why Do European Politicians (Dis)Like Minimum Tax Rates?

Osterloh, Steffen; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2009

Setting minimum tax rates is a well discussed way of mitigating pressure from tax competition. This paper investigates which motives shape the support for a minimum corporate tax among politicians. We make use of a unique data base: a survey among members of the European parliament. Our results...

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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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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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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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The Impact of Emu on Inflation Expectations

Heinemann, Friedrich; Ullrich, Katrin - 2008

This paper analyses the impact of the monetary regime change from the Bundesbank to the ECB in 1999 on inflation expectations. In the theoretical part, the Barro-Gordon model is used to derive the potential effect of a new central bank on inflation, inflation expectations and forecast errors....

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Does it Pay to Watch Central Bankers' Lips? The Information Content of Ecb Wording

Heinemann, Friedrich; Ullrich, Katrin - 2008

In this analysis, the informational content of central bank rhetoric is assessed based on the experience with the ECB since 1999. Among the ECB's communication channels we focus on the monthly press conferences. Based on a counting of certain signal words we construct a wording indicator...

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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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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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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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