Publications - MPIfG

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MPIfG Report 1999–2002
Vivek H. Dehejia, Philipp Genschel
Tax Competition in the European Union. In: Politics &
Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, 403–430 (1999)
How Intergovernmental Are Intergovernmental
Conferences? (Conference Project)
Gerda Falkner with Philip Budden (London), Thomas
Christiansen (University of Aberystwyth, UK), Knud Erik
Jorgensen (University of Aarhus, DK), Ulf Sverdrup (ARENA,
Oslo)
Intergovernmental Conferences are the arena in which
reforms of the basic Treaties of the European Union and the
European Communities are negotiated. The common understanding,
particularly in intergovernmentalist integration
theory, has been that only the governments of the member
states are relevant actors at that level of EU decision-making.
EU constitutional reform has, however, become an almost
permanent feature of political life since the 1990s (and yet
another Intergovernmental Conference is forthcoming in
2004). There are indicators that this increases the role of
actors besides the national governments. For example, the EC
institutions (notably the European Commission and the
European Parliament) and some Euro-level interest groups
may actually be more influential than hitherto expected. If
and how so, remains to be established. The project aims to
contribute to this debate on the basis of comparative work on
a number of different Intergovernmental Conferences and/or
actor categories involved in them. A number of authors who
have already been working individually on Intergovernmental
Conferences will meet and work together on a special issue of
the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) focusing on
aspects which endanger the EU’s problem-solving potential
(such as the joint-decision trap due to unanimity requirements
in European Council meetings) and factors which may
facilitate EU reform (such as positive cooperation effects from
long-term processes of joint policy-making in day-to-day
practice). Project duration: January 2000 to February 2002.
Gerda Falkner (ed.)
EU Treaty Reform Beyond Diplomacy and Bargaining: New
Institutionalist Perspectives. Journal of European Public Policy,
Special Issue, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2002), 146 pp.
Gerda Falkner
EU Treaty Reform as a Three-level Process. Introduction. In:
Journal of European Public Policy, Special Issue, Vol. 9, No. 1,
1–11 (2002)
Gerda Falkner
How Intergovernmental are Intergovernmental Conferences?
The Maastricht Treaty Reform and the Europeanisation of
Social Policy. In: Journal of European Public Policy, Special
Issue, Vol. 9, No. 1, 98–119 (2002)
Thomas Christiansen, Gerda Falkner, Knud Erik Jorgensen
Theorizing EU Treaty Reform: Beyond Diplomacy and
Bargaining. In: Journal of European Public Policy, Special Issue,
Vol. 9, No. 1, 12–32 (2002)
Stabilizing Economic Output in a Monetary
Union: The Impact of the Economic and
Monetary Union (EMU) on Fiscal Policy and
Wage-Bargaining Institutions
Henrik Enderlein
What happens to domestic economic policymaking when a
country joins a monetary union? As many economists have
pointed out, the absence of a national central bank will
increase pressure on fiscal policy and wage-setting institutions
to stabilize cyclical overreactions. Using this literature as
a starting point and discussing the links between economic
policy institutions and their capacity to be used as cyclical stabilizers,
this dissertation project analyzes the pressure on fiscal
policy and wage-bargaining institutions in every member
state to adjust to Economic and Monetary Union in Europe.
It points out that although the functional need to adjust to
EMU may be similar in all member states, different institutions
in different countries lead to different perceptions of the
policy problem and to different functionally equivalent options
to solve the problem. Estimating and evaluating the role
monetary policy has played during the pre-EMU era, this dissertation
presents hypotheses on how institutional or behavioral
changes may help fill the gap left by the central bank in
each specific national environment. Project duration: September
1999 to November 2001.
Henrik Enderlein
Wirtschaftspolitik in der Währungsunion: Die Auswirkungen
der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion auf die
finanz- und lohnpolitischen Institutionen in den Mitgliedsländern.
Doctoral thesis. University of Bremen, Department of
Business Studies and Economics, 2002
The Implementation of European Structural
Fund Programs in North Rhine-Westphalia
Helmut Voelzkow, Rolf G. Heinze (Ruhr University, Bochum)
and Volker Eichener (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Several subprojects sponsored by the state government of
North Rhine-Westphalia will evaluate the impact of programs
supported by the European Structural Fund in the German
federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In its analysis of programs
in North Rhine-Westphalia supported financially by
the European Regional Fund (EFRE), the European Social
Fund (ESF) or the European Agricultural Guarantee and
Guidance Fund (EAGFL), the study will look at the programs’
strategy, their implementation, their impact and their goal
achievement. Research will also focus on intergovernmental
coordination problems that emerge when support programs