European Economy - Discussion Papers

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86: Methodologies for the Assessment of Current Account Benchmarks

Leonor Coutinho, Alessandro Turrini and Stefan Zeugner

85: The Return of the European Wage Phillips Curve

Fabrice Orlandi, Werner Roeger and Anna Thum-Thysen

84: Labour Taxation and Inclusive Growth

Athena Kalyva, Savina Prince, Alexander Leodolter and Caterina Astarita

83: A ‘New Modesty’? Level Shifts in Survey Data and the Decreasing Trend of ‘Normal’ Growth

Christian Gayer and Bertrand Marc

82: Enhanced Fiscal Integration in the EMU? Proceedings of the joint workshop, organised by the European Commission, the European Stability Mechanism and the German Council of Economic Experts on 19 September 2017

Ralph Schmitt-Nilson

81: Economists’ Musings on Human Capital Investment: How Efficient is Public Spending on Education in EU Member States?

Erik Canton, Anna Thum-Thysen and Peter Voigt

80: Untapped Potential: Intra-Regional Trade in the Western Balkans

Plamen Kaloyanchev, Ivan Kusen and Alexandros Mouzakitis

79: The Relation between Productivity and Compensation in Europe

Paolo Pasimeni

78: Productivity of Slovenian Firms

Polona Domadenik, Bojan Ivanc and Denis Marinšek

77: The Economic Effects of a Tax Shift from Direct to Indirect Taxation in France

Francisco de Castro Fernández, Marion Perelle and Romanos Priftis

76: Growth Effects of Corporate Balance Sheet Adjustments in the EU: An Econometric and Model-based Assessment

Romanos Priftis and Anastasia Theofilakou

75: What Drives Output Volatility? The Role of Demographics and Government Size Revisited

Martin Iseringhausen and Hauke Vierke

74: Boosting Investment in Social Infrastructure in Europe

Lieve Fransen, Gino del Bufalo and Edoardo Reviglio

73: GDP-linked Bonds: Some Simulations on EU Countries

Nicolas Carnot and Stéphanie Pamies Sumner

72: The Recent Reform of the Labour Market in Italy: A Review

Dino Pinelli, Roberta Torre, Lucianajulia Pace, Laura Cassio and Alfonso Arpaia

71: Inequality and Structural Reforms: Methodological Concerns and Lessons from Policy

Caterina Astarita and Gaetano D'Adamo

70: Evaluating Medium Term Forecasting Methods and their Implications for EU Output Gap Calculations

Kieran Mc Morrow, Werner Roeger and Valerie Vandermeulen

69: NAWRU Estimation Using Structural Labour Market Indicators

Atanas Hristov, Christophe Planas, Werner Roeger and Alessandro Rossi

68: Fiscal Measures and Corporate Investment in France

Jean-Charles Bricongne, Lucia Granelli and Susanne Hoffmann

67: Independent Fiscal Institutions in the EU Member States: The Early Years

László Jankovics and Monika Sherwood

66: Missing Convergence in Innovation Capacity in the EU: Facts and Policy Implications

Reinhilde Veugelers

65: Structural Convergence vs. Systems Competition: Limits to the Diversity of Labour Market Policies in the EMU

Frank Vandenbroucke

64: Should We Use Linearised Models to Calculate Fiscal Multipliers?

Jesper Lindé and Mathias Trabandt

63: The Aggregate and Country-Specific Effectiveness of ECB Policy: Evidence from an External Instruments (VAR) Approach

Lucas Hafemann and Peter Tillmann

62: The Importance of a Banking Union and Fiscal Union for a Capital Markets Union

Viral Acharya and Sascha Steffen

61: External Imbalances and the Wage Curve: The Role of Labour and Product Market Regulation

Paulo Santos Monteiro

60: The Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix in the Euro Area: Challenges at the Zero Lower Bound

Athanasios Orphanides

59: Wages and Nominal and Real Unit Labour Cost Differentials in EMU

Gustav Horn and Andrew Watt

58: Services Trade Policy, Domestic Regulation and Economic Governance

Matteo Fiorini and Bernard Hoekman

57: Externalities, Institutions and Public Perception: The Political Economy of European Integration Revisited

Hans Peter Grüner

56: Globalisation and Income Inequality Revisited

Florian Dorn, Clemens Fuest and Niklas Potrafke

55: Banks in Tax Havens: First Evidence based on Country-by-Country Reporting

Vincent Bouvatier, Gunther Capelle and Anne-Laure Delatte

54: EMU and Labour Market Policy: Tensions and Solutions

Giuseppe Bertola

53: Trade Policy and Structural Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Europe

Alessandro Barattieri, Matteo Cacciatore and Francesco Costamagna

52: Fiscal Policy Stabilisation and the Financial Cycle in the Euro Area

Cinzia Alcidi

51: A Calibration of the Shadow Rate to the Euro Area Using Genetic Algorithms

Eric McCoy and Ulrich Clemens

50: Learning-by-Exporting across Export Destinations: Evidence from Lithuanian Manufacturing

Tobias Ketterer

49: A Complementary Tool to Monitor Fiscal Stress in European Economies

Stéphanie Pamies Sumner and Katia Berti

48: Assessing House Price Developments in the EU

Nicolas Philiponnet and Alessandro Turrini

47: Unlocking Investment in Intangible Assets

Anna Thum-Thysen, Peter Voigt, Benat Bilbao-Osorio, Christoph Maier and Diana Ognyanova

46: Estimating Mark-ups and the Effect of Product Market Regulations in Selected Professional Services Sectors: A Firm-level Analysis

Anna Thum-Thysen and Erik Canton

45: Financial Integration and Valuation Effects: Globalisation or Americanization?

Bogdan Bogdanov and Giulia Filippeschi

44: Non-Tax Revenue in the European Union: A Source of Fiscal Risk?

Gilles Mourre and Adriana Reut

43: Bank Lending Constraints in the Euro Area

Daniel P. Monteiro and Romanos Priftis

42: Pension Reforms in the EU since the Early 2000's: Achievements and Challenges Ahead

Giuseppe Carone, Per Eckefeldt, Luigi Giamboni, Veli Laine and Stéphanie Pamies Sumner

41: Exploring Italy's Growth Challenge A Model-Based Exercise

Dino Pinelli, Istvan P Szekely and Janos Varga

40: Solving for Structural Gravity in Panels Yes We Can

Aurélien Poissonnier

39: Measuring the Uncertainty in Predicting Public Revenue

Gilles Mourre, Caterina Astarita and Anamaria Maftei

38: EU Consumers’ Quantitative Inflation Perceptions and Expectations: An Evaluation

Rodolfo Arioli, Colm Bates, Heinz Dieden, Ioana Duca, Roberta Friz, Christian Gayer, Geoff Kenny, Aidan Meyler and Iskra Pavlova

37: Cost-Containment Policies in Hospital Expenditure in the European Union

Christoph Schwierz