Policy Paper Series Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/category/publications/policy-paper-series/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:41:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Policy Paper Series Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/category/publications/policy-paper-series/ 32 32 Eurozone: Convergence or Divergence? https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/eurozone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eurozone https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/eurozone/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:16 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=36578 We revisit the euro’s promise of convergence through a new Divergence Monitor tracking business and financial cycle synchronization since the 1980s. Business cycles became more aligned after 1999, but financial…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/eurozone/feed/ 0 Taxing corporations: why it is not only bad, but unjust https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/taxing-corporations-why-it-is-not-only-bad-but-unjust/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taxing-corporations-why-it-is-not-only-bad-but-unjust https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/taxing-corporations-why-it-is-not-only-bad-but-unjust/#respond Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:06:47 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/taxing-corporations-why-it-is-not-only-bad-but-unjust/ In recent years the issue of how much taxes corporations pay (and how much they should) has become extremely salient in Western countries. The attention to this issue has been…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/taxing-corporations-why-it-is-not-only-bad-but-unjust/feed/ 0 Asylum migration and barriers to labour market entry https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/asylum-migration-and-barriers-to-labour-market-entry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=asylum-migration-and-barriers-to-labour-market-entry https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/article/asylum-migration-and-barriers-to-labour-market-entry/#respond Thu, 17 Dec 2015 06:39:12 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/policy-paper-series/asylum-migration-and-barriers-to-labour-market-entry/ The European Union has experienced an increase in asylum applications for several
years, with 2014 seeing 570,800 applications, an increase of 47% compared to 2013.
The year-to-year increase in applications will be even more pronounced in 2015.
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland alone expect 1.3
million applications in 2015 — a new high since the Balkan crisis of the 1990s.

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