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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

36: What Makes a Good "Bad Bank"? The Irish, Spanish and German Experience

Stephanie Medina Cas and Irena Peresa

35: Fiscal Policy after the Crisis – Workshop Proceedings

Matteo Salto

34: Replacing Judgment by Statistics: Constructing Consumer Confidence Indicators on the Basis of Data-driven Techniques

Alessandro Girardi, Christian Gayer and Andreas Reuter

33: Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms in Europe: what factors determine investments?

Erik Canton and Irune Solera

32: Macroeconomic Relevance of Insolvency Frameworks in a High-debt Context: An EU Perspective

Jean-Charles Bricongne, Maria Demertzis, Peter Pontuch and Alessandro Turrini

31: Regulation, Red Tape and Location Choices of Top R&D Investors

Daria Ciriaci, Nicola Grassano and Antonio Vezzani

30: Italy’s Productivity Conundrum. A Study on Resource Misallocation in Italy

S. Calligaris, Massimo Del Gatto, F. Hassan, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Fabiano Schivardi

29: The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Labour Market Implications in Jordan and Lebanon

Lorenza Errighi and Jörn Griesse

28: Fiscal Reaction Functions for European Union Countries

Katia Berti, Eugeniu Colesnic, Cyril Desponts, Stephanie Pamies and Etienne Sail

27: European Commission's Forecasts Accuracy Revisited: Statistical Properties and Possible Causes of Forecast Errors

Marco Fioramanti, Laura González Cabanillas, Bjorn Roelstraete and Salvador Adrian Ferrandis Vallterra

26: Expenditure-based Consolidation: Experiences and Outcomes – Workshop proceedings

Karim Triki

25: Political Economy of Tax Reforms – Workshop proceedings

Savina Princen

24: Compared Performances of French Companies on the Domestic and Foreign Markets

José Bardaji, Jean-Charles Bricongne, Benoît Campagne and Guillaume Gaulier

23: Italy’s Spending Maze Runner – An analysis of the structure and evolution of public expenditure in Italy

Dimitri Lorenzani and Vito Ernesto Reitano

22: Stabilisation and rebalancing with fiscal or monetary devaluation: a model-based comparison

Lukas Vogel

21: Medium-Term Budgetary Frameworks in the EU Member States

Monika Sherwood

20: An assessment of the relative quality of the Output Gap estimates produced by the EU's Production Function Methodology

K. Mc Morrow, W. Roeger, V. Vandermeulen and K. Havik

19: Cross-border flows operated through the EU budget: an overview

Pasquale D'Apice

18: Tax Revenue Elasticities Corrected for Policy Changes in the EU

Gilles Mourre and Savina Princen

17: Interlinkages between Household and Corporate Debt in Advanced Economies

Jean-Charles Bricongne and Aurora Mordonu

16: Political Economy of EMU. Rebuilding Systemic Trust in the Euro Area in Times of Crisis

Felix Roth

15: The Eurozone’s Crisis of Democratic Legitimacy. Can the EU Rebuild Public Trust and Support for European Economic Integration?

Vivien A. Schmidt

14: The Centralization-Decentralization Issue

Charles Wyplosz

13: Monetary Union and Fiscal and Macroeconomic Governance

Marek Dabrowski

12: Small Firms and Domestic Bank Dependence in Europe’s Great Recession

Mathias Hoffmann and Bent Sorensen

11: Cross-Border Resolution of Global Banks

Ester Faia and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

10: The Legacy Debt and the Joint Path of Public Deficit and Debt in the Euro Area

Alberto Caruso, Lucrezia Reichlin and Giovanni Ricco

9: Monetary Policy, Bank Bailouts and the Sovereign-Bank Risk Nexus in the Euro Area

Marcel Fratzscher and Malte Rieth

8: EU Policy Making and Growing Inequalities

Wiemer Salverda

7: Human Capital, Inequality and Growth

Torben M Andersen

6: From Mind the Gap to Closing the Gap. Avenues to Reverse Stagnation in Europe through Investment and Productivity Growth

Bart van Ark

5: Household saving rates in the EU: Why do they differ so much?

Michael Stierle and Stijn Rocher

4: The Economic Impact of Rescue and Recovery Frameworks in the EU

Mihaela Carpus Carcea, Daria Ciriaci, Dimitri Lorenzani, Peter Pontuch and Carlos Cuerpo

3: Taxing Wealth: Past, Present, Future - Workshop Proceedings

Caterina Astarita

2: The Economic Impact of EU Guarantees on Credit to SMEs Evidence from CESEE Countries

Pierfederico Asdrubali and Simone Signore

1: Economic Convergence of Central and Eastern European EU Member States over the Last Decade (2004-2014)

Balázs Forgó and Anton Jevcák