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EconPol Europe Opinion: UK to intensify tax competition with targeted incentives after Brexit

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Britain’s upcoming exit from the EU has led to a debate on the strategy British economic policy could take after Brexit. According to ifo President Clemens Fuest/EconPol Europe, tax competition in Europe can be expected to intensify. This competition, however, is not likely to result in a general reduction in headline tax rates, but in the creation of targeted tax incentives aimed at specific activities.

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EconPol Policy Report: The future of Eurozone fiscal governance

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What is the future of fiscal governance in the Eurozone? In EconPol Europe’s first policy report Anne-Laure Delatte (CEPII), Clemens Fuest (ifo Institute), Daniel Gros (CEPS), Friedrich Heinemann (ZEW), Martin Kocher (IHS)and Roberto Tamborini (University of Trento) discuss various options for fiscal governance reform. The authors focus on two possible reform approaches referred to as the ‘Maastricht model’ and the ‘US model’. They argue that certain elements of the two approaches could be combined to achieve a more resilient and economically successful Eurozone.
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EconPol Europe presents itself: A new voice for research in Europe

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EconPol Europe – The European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research is a unique collaboration of policy-oriented university and non-university research institutes that will contribute their scientific expertise to the discussion of the future design of the European Union. In spring 2017, the network was founded by the ifo Institute together with eight other renowned European research institutes as a new voice for research in Europe.
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EconPol Europe will pool the expertise of several hundred researchers

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EconPol Europe consists of six non-university research institutes and three European universities. Founding members are the ifo Institute (Munich), the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS, Brussels), the Centre d’Études Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII, Paris), the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS, Vienna), the Toulouse School of Economics, the University of Oxford (Centre for Business Taxation), the Università di Trento (Department of Economics and Management), the VATT Institute for Economic Research (VATT, Helsinki) and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim). This combined expertise will contribute new ideas and solutions to the debate on the pressing issues facing the European Union.
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Cross-border cooperation on fiscal and economic issues

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With its cross-border cooperation on fiscal and economic issues, EconPol Europe aims at promoting growth, prosperity and social cohesion in Europe and, in particular, at providing research based contributions to the successful development of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Its tasks consist of joint interdisciplinary research in the following areas: sustainable growth and ‘best practice’, reform of EU policies and the EU budget, capital markets and the regulation of the financial sector and governance and macroeconomic policy in the European Monetary Union.
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