Download or read book Policy Simulations in the European Union written by Amedeo Fossati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-02-19 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this much-needed collection employ Applied General Equilibrium methodology to address a wide variety of concerns within the European Union. Contributors examine five main policy areas: * international market integration * policy simulations with alternative treatments of factor markets * policies for carbon dioxide abatement * competi

Download or read book Where Does the EU Cohesion Policy Produce Its Impact written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we investigate the macroeconomic effects of the 2007-2013 cohesion policy investments in the EU. First, we present a detailed overview of the EU budget and of the contributions of the Member States for the specific policy under scrutiny. Then, we use a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model to assess the overall impact of the policy both in the short run and in the long run. Finally, we focus on the spatial spillovers generated by the policy programmes and we highlight a number of policyrelevant findings with regard to the debate over the financing of the policy and the divide between its net contributors and net beneficiaries. Our main findings suggest that cohesion policy programmes had a positive and significant impact on the economies of the EU Member States and regions, particularly in the poorest regions of the EU. Spatial spillovers imply that the progammes implemented in the main beneficiaries of the policy also benefit its main contributors. For some of these Member States, spillovers even constitute the main source of benefits from cohesion policy.

Download or read book Land Use Simulation for Europe written by John Stillwell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land use change is driven by a variety of forces, including spatial policies formulated at supra-national, national, regional and local levels. The main focus of this book is to contextualise, explain and illustrate a new methodology for simulating land use change in different parts of Europe. It considers some of the more important causal factors and identifies state-of-the-art approaches to modelling human and environmental systems, and for evaluating and visualising altenative scenarios. The last part of the volume presents material from two case studies, one from The Netherlands and one from Portugal, of the implementation of a new simulation model called EuroScanner. Audience: This work will be of interest to researchers and practioners whose work involves geography, simulation and modelling, environmental planning, spatial decision making, the methodology of social sciences, and economics.

Download or read book Modeling Fiscal Policy in the European Union written by Janusz Kudla and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers optimal fiscal policy in the short and long run for an internationally integrating economy when public borrowing is constrained, and comes up with conclusions that shed new light on the fiscal reforms now being adopted in the European Union.

Download or read book Experiencing the European Union written by Marco Brunazzo and published by Rubbettino Editore. This book was released on 2013-06-03T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU is a complex political and institutional machine, with distinct procedures, language and codes. Its functioning is based on negotiations among a variety of actors at different levels (local, regional, national, supranational, inter-institutional, intra-institutional, etc.) as well as in informal and non-legislative contexts. For this reason, the EU can be difficult to understand. Negotiation roleplaying simulations can shed light on the genuine dynamics of the system and are thus becoming an essential element in teaching and training on EU matters. This book is an introduction and a guide to the EU decision-making process and its institutional settings, an essential tool for effective negotiators in the European arena, and an instrument for teachers at any level offering a series of suggestions on how to design successful simulation games.

Download or read book Some Selected Simulation Experiments with the European Commission s QUEST Model written by Werner Röger and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. The QUEST model - 3. Policy simulations - 4. Supply shocks - 5. Conclusions.

Download or read book Ex Post Economic Evaluation of Competition Policy written by Fabienne Ilzkovitz and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition authorities are increasingly interested in understanding the impact of their activities on markets and consumers. The goal is to improve competition policy rules and decision-making practices and to get robust evidence on the benefits of competition and competition policy for society as a whole. Discussions with competition authorities, practitioners and academics have shown the need to take stock of the experience gained in this field by the European Commission and to present it in an easily accessible way. The studies collected in this volume – prepared by senior Commission officials and competition policy experts – range from the ex post evaluation of specific policy interventions to the assessment of the broader impact of competition policy. The issues and topics examined include the following: objectives and scope of evaluations by the European Commission; description of counterfactual evaluation techniques used; conditions for a successful ex post evaluation of a competition policy intervention; a wide selection of individual cases covering a variety of economic sectors; applications in merger control, antitrust and State aid; direct benefits of competition policy interventions for consumers; deterrent effects of such interventions on market participants; and macroeconomic outcomes in terms of job creation, productivity and GDP growth. This matchless book assembles within a single volume all that is needed for competition policy analysts and practitioners to undertake ex post economic evaluations. While its collection of state-of-the-art ex post evaluation studies has a clear value for competition authorities, it is sure to be welcomed as well by competition law practitioners in the private sector, who will greatly appreciate the effort made to cast a critical eye on decisions taken in the past. Moreover, it allows for addressing some of the new challenges facing competition policymakers. Fabienne Ilzkovitz is Principal Advisor responsible for the economic evaluation of competition policy within the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, and since 2014, she has coordinated various ex post evaluation projects in the Directorate-General. She is also Associate Professor of Economics in the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Adriaan Dierx is Senior Expert on ex post economic evaluation within the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. He has managed a number of studies aimed at assessing the economic impact of the European Commission’s competition policy interventions.

Download or read book Funds and Games written by Sjef Ederveen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Simulation of EU Policies and Evaluation of Their Territorial Impacts written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is committed, through the Cohesion Policy, to contribute to a sustainable economic, social and territorial cohesion by reducing disparities between the levels of development of regions and countries of its member states. The EU's main investment policy is also responsible for mainstreaming the environment into its programmes and projects. The Land Use-based Integrated Sustainability Assessment Platform (LUISA) was parameterized according to a 'Reference Scenario 2014' to assess the spatial impact of regional and urban policy in Europe. In order to show the impacts of EU policies included in the Reference Scenario, a set of indicators were computed to measure [1] land use intensity and the urban sprawl and [2] the implication of this policy on accessibility in the EU regions. The modelling results indicated that in spite of important regional differences, the overall land use intensity will decline. The Reference Scenario also shows a general increase in urban sprawl across Europe most significantly in the main EU capital cities.

Download or read book The Potential Impact of the Fiscal Transfers Under the EU Cohesion Policy Programme written by Jan in 't Veld and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Introduction. - 2. The European Union's Policy programme 2007-2013. - 3-Macro-economic impact analysis. - 4. Simulations. - 5. Sensitivity analysis. - 6. Conclusion.

Download or read book The Past Present and Future of the European Union written by A. Deardorff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects selected papers on the European Union from the 13th Congress of the International Economic Association held in Lisbon, September 2002. It starts with an address by Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, who sets the tone for the other papers by describing and evaluating two of the greatest accomplishments of the EU: economic and monetary union, and EU enlargement. Other authors deal in detail with various aspects of these and other issues, using a mixture of theoretical, empirical, and other tools.

Download or read book Modelling the Macroeconomic Impact of Competition Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an update of the macro-model simulations of the impact of the competition policy interventions of the European Commission over the period 2012-2020. The novelties of this year's report include the transition from EU28 to EU27, the inclusion of preliminary data on antitrust enforcement for the period 2012-2020, and the regular update with data for the year 2020 on merger interventions and cartel prohibitions. The year 2020 saw a relatively small total number of interventions, but the 25 interventions included four merger interventions with affected markets of substantial size. Taken together, 2020 was an 'average' year in terms of the macroeconomic impact of the Commission's activities. The report presents the results of the macroeconomic impact of competition policy interventions by the European Commission using the QUEST III macro-model of the EU economy and an EU-wide input-output model. The simulations make use of the information provided by DG Competition on the European Commission's merger interventions and cartel prohibitions as well as preliminary data on antitrust interventions other than cartels. The simulations carried out in QUEST III illustrate that competition policy has a positive impact on GDP of 0.37% in the medium term. This impact includes the direct price effects (as captured by the customer savings calculations) as well as the indirect, deterrent effects of the Commission's competition policy interventions. The difference between the five-year GDP impact of 0.37% reported here and the 0.27% reported in last year's report can be explained by three factors: (1) the transition from the EU-28 to the EU-27 due to Brexit; (2) the impact of the Commission's antitrust interventions (in the report of the previous year, only merger interventions and cartel prohibitions were considered); and (3) the effect of the Commission's competition policy interventions of 2020. Similarly, the calculations carried out using the input-output framework suggest that, on average over the period 2012-2020, competition policy enforcement has reduced the EU's overall price level by 0.63 percentage points, including both within-sector and cross-sector spill-over effects. Industries with many important downstream links (i.e. those that sit higher up in supply chains) tend to produce stronger spill-over effects than industries with few downstream connections (i.e. those that sell a large share of their output to final users). Activities with large spill-overs include finance, insurance and business services, resource extraction, the energy sector, basic manufacturing, and certain components of the transport network. Finally, the report presents new developments in data analysis and modelling, including in particular: (i) the on-going research on the assessment of the evolution of mark-ups in the EU; (ii) improvements in the mathematical approach chosen to model deterrence; and (iii) the possible correlation between mark-up levels and Commission interventions at the sector level. On this last point, the report finds that the Commission's competition policy interventions (excepting cartel prohibitions) tend to focus on industries with high mark-ups and concentration ratios.

Download or read book Decent Incomes for All written by Bea Cantillon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the forefront as a specific area for EU policy cooperation and coordination. Regrettably, however, little progress has been achieved so far, either at the national or European level. On the contrary, the EU's social fabric is under major stress: convergence in national living standards has halted or reversed while progress in terms of poverty reduction in the last decades has been disappointing in most EU Member States. In Europe, despite high social spending and work-related welfare reforms, poverty often remains a largely intractable problem for policymakers and a persistent reality for many European citizens. In Decent Incomes for All, the authors shed new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union and the corresponding responses by European welfare states. They analyze the effect of social and fiscal policies before, during, and after the recent economic crisis and study the impact of alternative policy packages on poverty and inequality. The volume also explores how social investment and local initiatives of social innovation can contribute to tackling poverty, while recognizing that there are indeed structural constraints on the increase of the social floor and difficult trade-offs involved in reconciling work and poverty reduction. Academics and graduate students in comparative social policy, inclusion and anti-poverty policy, sociology, and public economics will find the book to be a particularly helpful resource in their work.

Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy SIMulation CAPSIM Model written by Robert M'barek and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Agricultural Policy SIMulation (CAPSIM) model is one of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) in-house models used for impact analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It is a calibrated, comparative static, partial equilibrium model which was developed in the early 1980s by the European Centre for Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policy Research and the University of Bonn on behalf of the Directorate General Eurostat (DG ESTAT) for agricultural policy analysis. In 2006, CAPSIM was transferred from DG ESTAT to JRC-IPTS. The CAPSIM model has a disaggregated coverage of items and individual European Union Member States and Candidate Countries. The present JRC-IPTS Technical Report describes the model structure of CAPSIM in its version from 2005 with several applications. The first part of the report focuses on explaining the model specification, particularly: supply and demand side, processing, labour, different policy regimes as applied in the CAP, trade regimes and welfare calculations. The second part describes the CAPSIM programme code in order to provide a guided tour through the technical aspects of the model for potential users.

Download or read book Modelling the Macroeconomic Impact of Competition Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report models and analyses various aspects of the macroeconomic impact of competition policy interventions by the European Commission over the period 2012-2021. Based on information provided by the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) on its merger interventions, cartel prohibitions and other antitrust interventions, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has used two models to simulate the macroeconomic impact of such interventions: the QUEST III macro-model of the EU economy, which was developed by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) for assessing the impact of EU policies, and an EU-wide input-output model, which allows for an investigation of the sectoral differentiation and spill-over effects of competition policy interventions. The simulation carried out in QUEST III allows to evaluate the impact of competition policy enforcement on economy-wide measures of performance such as GDP, employment, prices and productivity. The impact includes the direct price effects of the Commission's competition policy interventions (as captured by the annual customer savings calculations) as well as the indirect, deterrent effects of these interventions. This report updates and improves the model simulation published in the previous edition (European Commission, 2022b) along several dimensions. First, it includes the straightforward update of results with the competition interventions by the Commission in 2021. Similar to 2020, the year 2021 is characterised by a relatively low number of interventions. Second, it includes improved data on the Commission's antitrust and cartel interventions for the period 2012-2021. Third, it includes a new approach to assess the deterrent effects of competition policy interventions based on models used to describe the diffusion of information (using the Bass model). The new simulation results suggest a 1.17 percentage point reduction in markups (as measured by the Lerner index) resulting from the Commission's competition policy interventions. This reduction in mark-ups, applied to a (calibrated) mark-up level of 13.56 percent in the steady-state of the QUEST III model, triggers an increase of real GDP relative to the baseline in the range of 0.6% - 1.1% in the medium to long term (the equivalent of an uplift of EUR 80 - 150 billion in 2019 GDP), as well as a 0.3% - 0.7% reduction in the price level. All the main components of aggregate demand increase. More specifically, after 5 years, the results suggest an increase in consumption (0.5%) and investment (1.1%) despite the decline in profits associated with the negative markup shock. Investment is increasing because the negative direct effect of markups on future profitability is more than offset by the positive effect of the increasing demand due to the lower prices.

Download or read book Using the EU SILC for Policy Simulation written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Higher Economic Growth Through Macroeconomic Policy Coordination written by Klaus-Jürgen Gern and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: