We estimate the pro-competitive effects of Austria's participation in the Single Market after its EU accession in 1995 …

paribus, to changes in VAT revenues in the individual EU countries. For instance, the member countries with trade surpluses … type of revenue imbalance among the EU nations. The introduction of the Single Market in 1993 appears to have further … encouraged firms and households evasive behaviour in paying VAT in the EU. In order to estimate its relevance, this study …

The EU Single Market and the Maastricht Treaty are now aged 25. In this short history many events marked the way: the … creation of EMU in 1999, the introduction of the euro in 2002, and the great EU enlargement starting in 2004. And lastly - for … the Euro crisis in 2010 led to a setback in the economic development in the EU. A quarter of a century invites to look …