In 2010 the European Semester was created to better coordinate fiscal and economic policies within Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. The Semester aims to tackle economic imbalances by giving European Union (EU) member states country-specific recommendations (CSRs) regarding their public budgets as well as their wider economic and social policies with a view to enabling better policy coordination among Euro Area member states. In this article we develop a method to assess the way in which the CSRs have been addressing coordination and offer a systematic analysis of the way they have been formulated. We offer a way to code CSRs as well as one to analyse progress evaluations. Furthermore, we seek to use our results to address one of the reoccurring questions in the literature: whether the EU is pursuing a ‘one size fits all’ approach to economic policy making in the Euro Area? The findings indicate that different types of market economies and welfare states – different ‘varieties of capitalism’ – among the Euro Area members obtain different recommendations regarding different policy areas

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衡量欧洲学期经济改革建议：“一刀切”还是为成员国量身定做？

2010 年设立了欧洲学期，以更好地协调欧洲经济和货币联盟内的财政和经济政策。本学期旨在通过向欧盟 (EU) 成员国提供有关其公共预算以及更广泛的经济和社会政策的国家特定建议 (CSR) 来解决经济失衡问题，以期在欧元区成员国之间实现更好的政策协调。在本文中，我们开发了一种方法来评估 CSR 解决协调问题的方式，并对它们的制定方式进行系统分析。我们提供了一种对 CSR 进行编码的方法以及一种分析进度评估的方法。此外，我们试图使用我们的结果来解决文献中反复出现的问题之一：欧盟是否正在推行“一刀切”的欧元区经济政策制定方法？调查结果表明，欧元区成员国中不同类型的市场经济和福利国家——不同的“资本主义种类”——就不同的政策领域获得了不同的建议