Designing the European Model

This book examines existing problems in the European economy, focusing on labour markets, including labour market reform and outsourcing, as well as macroeconomic issues, such as macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro area and convergence and divergence in economic growth in the EU. The book also looks at rethinking subsidiarity in the EU, financial architecture and competition policy.

SEPPO HONKAPOHJA is Chairman of the European Economic Advisory Group, CESifo, Germany. FRANK WESTERMANN is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany.

List of Figures	p. vi
List of Tables	p. viii
List of Boxes	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Members of the EEAG	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Labour Markets
Welfare to Work (from the 2002 EEAG Report)	p. 35
Labour Market Reform in Europe (from the 2004 EEAG Report)	p. 61
Pay-setting Systems in Europe: Ongoing Developments and Possible Reforms (from the 2004 EEAG Report)	p. 82
Outsourcing (from the 2005 EEAG Report)	p. 122
Longer Working Hours - The Beginning of a New Trend? (from the 2005 EEAG Report)	p. 144
Macroeconomic Issues
Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilisation in the Euro Area: Possible Reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact and National Decision-Making Processes (from the 2003 EEAG Report)	p. 177
Acceding Countries: The Road to the Euro (from the 2004 EEAG Report)	p. 229
Economic Growth in the European Union (from the 2006 EEAG Report)	p. 259
Global Imbalances (from the 2006 EEAG Report)	p. 296
Institutions
Rethinking Subsidiarity in the EU: Economic Principles (from the 2003 EEAG Report)	p. 331
Financial Architecture (from the 2003 EEAG Report)	p. 366
Pensions and Children (from the 2005 EEAG Report)	p. 399
Prospects for Education Policy in Europe (from the 2006 EEAG Report)	p. 447
Mergers and Competition Policy in Europe (from the 2006 EEAG Report)	p. 469
Index	p. 497
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Designing the European Model

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