TY - THES A1 - Haas, Jörg T1 - Economic Policy Coordination and the European Semester N2 - This dissertation asks three interrelated questions about economic policy coordination: (1) Why do we see persistent macroeconomic imbalances that make international coordination necessary? (2) What kind of economic policies does the European Union promote in its member states via its coordination framework, the European Semester? (3) What determines whether governments implement recommendations issued under the Semester? The first paper argues that economic ideas, and their emphasis in media reporting, help secure public support for policies that result in external imbalances. It finds that the dominant interpretations of current account balances in Australia and Germany concur with distinct perspectives: external surpluses are seen as evidence of competitiveness in Germany, while external deficits are interpreted as evidence of attractiveness for investments in Australia. Survey experiments in both countries suggest that exposure to these diverging interpretations of the current account has a causal effect on citizens’ support for their country’s economic strategy. The second and third papers analyse policy recommendations under the European Semester, arguably the most ambitious example of economic policy coordination worldwide. The findings show that the European Union does not use the Semester to promote a single economic model across all member states. Recommendations do not uniformly recommend more reliance on the market or the state. Rather, they tend to suggest fiscal restraint and less protection for labour market insiders, while simultaneously promoting measures that benefit vulnerable groups in society. During the second decade of EMU, recommendations have gradually become more favourable of state intervention. The fourth paper investigates possible reasons for (non-)compliance with the Semester. It argues that recommendations are more likely to be implemented when their policy direction is in line with national governments’ economic ideology. The analysis shows that recommendations advocating less state intervention in the economy are more likely to be implemented under right-wing governments. T3 - Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School - 05/2021 Y1 - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-37946 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-3794 N1 - Following papers have been published: D’Erman, V., Haas, J., Schulz, D. F., & Verdun, A. (2019). Measuring economic reform recommendations under the European Semester: ‘One size fits all’ or tailoring to member states? Journal of Contemporary European Research, 15(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v15i2.999 Haas, J., D’Erman, V., Schulz, D., & Verdun, A. (2020. Economic and fiscal policy coordination after the crisis: Is the European Semester promoting more or less state intervention? Journal of European Integration. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2020.1730356 Ferrara, Federico M., Haas, Jörg S., Peterson, Andrew. and Sattler, Thomas (2021) ‘Exports vs. investment: How political discourse shapes popular support for external imbalances’, Socio-Economic Review (mwab004), doi: 10.1093/ser/mwab004 N1 - Shelf mark: 2021D005 + 2021D005+1 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Schneemelcher, Pola A1 - Haas, Jörg T1 - Rules enforcement in the EU: “Conditionality” to the rescue? N2 - Budget conditionality has become a key issue in the ongoing debate on the next multiannual financial framework. Some regard it as the EU's silver bullet against member states that refuse to implement EU values, rules and decisions. Others fear excessive interference in national competences. In this policy paper, Jörg Haas and Pola Schneemelcher examine what conditionality means in the EU context and whether it really improves the enforceability of EU rules and values. KW - MFF, EU budget, Rule of Law Y1 - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-45510 UR - https://www.delorscentre.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/20190528_Konditionalitaet-und-MFR_Schneemelcher_Haas1-2.pdf ER -