Calvo-style models of nominal rigidities currently provide the dominant paradigm for understanding the linkages between wage and price dynamics. Recent empirical implementations stress the idea that these models link inflation to the behavior of the labor share of income. Gali, Gertler, and...

Infolge der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sind insbesondere in den Ländern mit Leistungsbilanzdefiziten die Defizite der öffentlichen Haushalte empor geschnellt und die Staatsverschuldung ist stark gestiegen. Damit ist die Frage nach dem Umgang mit den Ungleichgewichten im Euroraum und mit...

Even before the financial crisis of 2007/08, there were significant questions about Europe's long-term growth prospects. After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, euro area productivity growth had, from the mid-1990s onwards, fallen significantly behind. Using...

Two recent proposals for overcoming the euro area crisis make the case for monetary financing of the public sector. Watt (2015) proposes that the ECB finances public investment directly, Pâris and Wyplosz (2014) contend that public debt may be effectively restructured by burying parts of it in...

The introduction of the euro meant that countries with sovereign debt problems could not use monetisation and devaluation as a way to prevent default. The institutional structures of the euro were also widely thought to prevent a country in difficulties being bailed out by other euro members or...

The past few months have exposed serious problems in relation to Europe's ability to cope with financial stress. Placing the new Financial Stability funds on a permanent basis, in the form of a new European Monetary Fund will be required if Europe is to deal effectively with the serious debt...

The euro area's TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic and popular discussions of the euro crisis. Some of this commentary has described the system as being responsible for a "secret bailout" of Europe's periphery. Another common theme has been that the system has built up...

Die Krise im Euroraum ist noch nicht bewältigt. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den Krisenländern ist als Folge der Austeritätspolitik desaströs und belastet zunehmend den gesamten Währungsraum. Die wesentliche Ursache der Krise, die dauerhafte Verletzung des Inflationsziels auf der...