Spanish Abstract: Tras casi seis años con los tipos de intervención situados en niveles cercanos a cero y con numerosos estímulos no convencionales todavía en vigor, en 2014 ya se percibe la proximidad de la normalización monetaria en las economías en las que, como en Estados Unidos y el...

This paper documents the aggregated performance of non-financial corporations in the largest euro area economies and compares it with the performance of the US corporate sector as reported by National Economic Accounts and Financial Accounts. We find significant cross-country structural...

English Abstract: The main proposals for the reform of the European Union’s fiscal policy framework affect three blocks of issues: (i) simplifying the rules to make them more transparent and flexible; (ii) incorporating new supranational risk-sharing instruments into the Economic and Monetary...