The book reveals that European product market integration has a significant impact on the conditions of competition, the strategies of companies and the structure of industry. It adds a quarter of a percentage to annual GDP growth rates and has not led to an increased exposure of the EU to...

Improving the quality of public finances is a major challenge for European policy makers. The economic crisis has increased budgetary pressures and accentuated the tension between the need to sustain public spending aimed at raising the EU growth potential and the increased scarcity of public...

Le marche unique et la monnaie unique constituent des elements complementaires d'une strategie qui doit permettre a l'Union europeenne de mieux faire face aux defis de la globalisation. En effet, l'arrivee de la monnaie unique devrait renforcer certains des effets induits par le programme de...

The resilience of the EU Member States to the onslaught of the 2008 financial crisis depends not only on the countries? ex ante budgetary position, but also on the strength of the structural policy framework. While the Member States with a good track record of structural reforms have not been...