The Use of Innovative Financial Instruments for Financing EU Policies and Objectives: Implications for EU and National Budgets

This CEPS Special Report analyses the proposed expansion of innovative financial instruments in the EU Multiannual Financial Framework for the 2014-20 period. It presents the economic rationale, governance principles and criteria that these instruments should follow and compares these with proposals...

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Published inIDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
Main Authors Núñez Ferrer, Jorge, Volkery, Axel, Withana, Sirini, Medarova-Bergstrom, Keti
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LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2012
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Financial instruments
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Summary:This CEPS Special Report analyses the proposed expansion of innovative financial instruments in the EU Multiannual Financial Framework for the 2014-20 period. It presents the economic rationale, governance principles and criteria that these instruments should follow and compares these with proposals from the European Commission. Based on this assessment, it makes recommendations for the proposed instruments. The study, which was originally commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, was carried out by a team of researchers from CEPS and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).