EU Economic Governance: Less Might Work Better Than More
The European Commission has recently proposed a new package of reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact. The package contains a number of good proposals. In particular, the increased focus on debt ratios is a very positive suggestion though this should be strengthened further. However, some of the other proposals, such as the new principle of prudent fiscal management and the scoreboard for non-fiscal imbalances, are poorly thought out and perhaps unworkable. A smaller number of well-focused proposals may end up working better than this complex, and perhaps overly ambitious, package. And a coherent policy to allow for orderly sovereign defaults in Euro area member states would probably place more pressure, via bond markets, on states to get their fiscal houses in order than would the proposed system of fines.
Year of publication: |
2010-12-31
|
---|---|
Authors: | Whelan, Karl |
Institutions: | School of Economics, University College Dublin |
Saved in:
freely available
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Testing parameter stability : a wild bootstrap approach
Whelan, Karl, (2005)
-
Can rational expectations sticky-price models explain inflation dynamics?
Rudd, Jeremy, (2006)
-
Housing inventories and prices : what’s next for the US housing market?
Whelan, Karl, (2009)
- More ...