The Stability and Growth Pact - who does not know it? The need for reforming the Stability and Growth Pact became more and more obvious in the year 2002. The big countries as Germany and France are in systematic breach of the rules within the Stability and Growth Pact. They are likely to do so...

The European Fiscal Framework and the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) have had great significance since the completion of the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The current enforcement and credibility problems, and discussion about reforming the SGP, as well as the failure to impose...

Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the Euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...

The Stability and Growth Pact - who does not know it? The need for reforming the Stability and Growth Pact became more and more obvious in the year 2002. The big countries as Germany and France are in systematic breach of the rules within the Stability and Growth Pact. They are likely to do so...

The European Fiscal Framework and the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) have had great significance since the completion of the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The current enforcement and credibility problems, and discussion about reforming the SGP, as well as the failure to impose...

Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...

Soll Griechenland innerhalb oder außerhalb des Euroraums verbleiben, und welchen Weg sollen überschuldete Länder gehen, eine Staatsinsolvenz, eine Umschuldung oder eine Überbrückung der Krise mit Staatshilfen? Nach Ansicht von Jürgen Matthes, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln,...