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In the discussions on the need for fiscal rules and their usefulness in a monetary union, researchers have not agreed if financial markets have a sufficiently disciplining effect on governments, which would mean that the fiscal rules are not necessary. This paper investigates whether the...
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In the discussions on the need for fiscal rules and their usefulness in a monetary union, researchers have not agreed if financial markets have a sufficiently disciplining effect on governments, which would mean that the fiscal rules are not necessary. This paper investigates whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483205
Fiscal federalism theory seeks to establish the optimal organization of a government, confined by certain geographic boundaries. The implications of that theory for the monetary unification process are shortly inquired. The literature measuring the redistribution and stabilization effects of the...
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The paper discusses the framework of ERM2 (the exchange rate mechanism of EMU, the Economic and Monetary Union) and its … of EMU). Second it reviews how ERM2 is conducive to future euro-zone membership of the accession countries. From the …
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Almost twenty years ago the Maastricht Treaty introduced procedures for European Social Dialogue, as part of a larger package of measures to strengthen the social dimension of European integration. Through the Treaty provisions (articles 154-155 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union),...
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We investigate the distribution of European Union (EU) Structural Funds across EU regions. We draw from literature on the political economy of national intergovernmental grants and on the two-tiered bargaining process in the EU. Bargaining on the distribution of Structural Funds takes place on...
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This paper is essentially a translation of a comment in German (Joerges 2000) on a series of articles in which Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he called deliberative supra-nationalism and contrasted...
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increase the capacity of the area to cope with future economic and financial crises. The issue of a separate budget for this … area is of particular interest in this article. The idea of such a budget has recently become the subject of lively public …
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This paper seeks to review a selection of ten salient critical claims about Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) that were … heard in the 1990s in either the Political Science literature or the Economics literature or both. In this paper, the author … focuses on five salient Political Science claims and five Economics claims prominent at the time that pointed to problems with …
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