THE 63rd INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Madrid, Spain
14-18 March 2007

European Union Issues
Thursday 17h45 - 19h45
Organizer: M. Peter van der Hoek, Erasmus University

Chair: Antonio Afonso, European Central Bank and Technical University of Lisbon

Tiia Püss, Mare Viies, and Reet Maldre, Tallinn University of Technology, The Structures of Tax Revenue and Tax Burden Convergence in EU Countries

Monica Raileanu Szeles and Ileana Tache, Transilvania University of Brasov, On the Cumulative Nature of Economic and Social Disadvantages in EU Countries

James Savage, University of Virginia and Amy Verdun, University of Victoria, Reforming Europe's Stability and Growth Pact: Lessons from the American Experience in Macrobudgeting

Erwin R. Tiongson, The World Bank, Internal Migration and Commuting in the New Member States of the EU

Marie-José Rinaldi-Larribe, International University of Monaco, Is Economic Convergence in new Member States Sufficient for an Early Adoption of the Euro?

Discussants: James Savage, University of Virginia, Mare Viies, Tallinn University of Technology, Erwin R. Tiongson, The World Bank, Ileana Tache, Transilvania University of Brasov, and Monica Raileanu Szeles, Transilvania University of Brasov