[PDF] Top 20 Economics of Policy Errors and Learning in the European Union. Bruges European Economic Policy (BEEP) Briefing 31/2013

... of policy making, the concept of policy error in this paper does not refer to what ideal policies should be or what governments ought to ...of policy error in this paper takes as granted initial ... See full document

... 7. When the accession negotiations begin they are divided into two stages. The screening stage and the negotiation stage proper. During the screening stage, the Commission presents detailed reviews and explanations of ... See full document

... Banking Union and the short memory of politicians, helped by the fact that the ECB has temporarily calmed down the financial markets with its OMTs, explains that the lessons of the financial crisis are already ... See full document

... great economic importance for the 500 million consumers and 21 million companies in ...the economic borders between Member States removed, Europeanisation becomes inevitable for ...of European ... See full document

... in economic literature based on government failure (that is, the EU being too weak on accountability and responsiveness to voters) is ...today’s Union which do not accord well with a functional analysis of ... See full document

... and learning about consumer preferences; cooperation with car rental firms also contributes to such market ...the European CUTE-Project where hydrogen buses are ...explicit policy commitment by ... See full document

... Even the evaluation report quoted above 16 mentions that many Member States are too far away from leader Member States and that this gap is more or less a North/ South gap. The report also states that less affluent ... See full document

... existing economic trends- policies promoting environment-friendly modes of transport would slow down the ...prompting economic development and transport ...along European corridors" 5 ... See full document

... other policy makers are already enmeshed in the domestic micro and macro economic policy debates of the candidates, at first via so-called Joint Assessments, subsequently via Pre-accession ... See full document

... This BEEP Briefing paper takes an analytical approach to these issues and to the possible 'framing' involved. Such an analysis reveals a very different picture than the negative framing in such debates has ... See full document

... Current arrangements for multi-national company taxation in EU are plagued by severe conceptual and administrative problems, leading to high compliance costs, considerable uncertainty and ample room for abuse. ... See full document

... Access to reliable, independent and comparable data is key to the banking union (hereafter BU), since transparency of bank data is a prerequisite for an effective supervision and resolution by the competent ... See full document

... In some areas emerging markets for sustainability are evident as the case study on wind energy in section 5 shows. But how does this apply to other environmental problems such as climate protection? Is the climate itself ... See full document

... the European Commission and following a consensus adopted by OECD countries, the ICT manufacturing sector is defined as follows: office, accounting and computing machinery (NACE ... See full document

... biofuels policy with concerns about sustainable energy, the deployment of hydrogen and fuel cells and attempts to promote rural development thus will become a major challenge for the next ... See full document

... enterprise policy would become the new label for competitiveness policies, was swiftly dropped when Chancellor Schroeder started calling for greater EU concern about manufacturing industry in a new industrial ... See full document

... of European construction) or in the debate on the internal market of energy (where the need for DG Internal Market and DG Competition to work together in order to solve the contradictions arising from the current ... See full document