The German debt brake is often regarded as a great success story, and has therefore served as a role model for the Euro area and its fiscal compact. In this paper we fundamentally criticize the debt brake. We show that (1) it suffers from serious shortcomings, and its success is far from certain...

Peter Flaschel is Professor Emeritus at Bielefeld University, Germany. He holds a PhD degree in Mathematics and a Habilitation degree in Economics. He has extensively published on classical economics and heterodox macrodynamical model building. He was on numerous occasions Visiting Professor at...

In a Kaleckian monetary distribution and growth model with conflict inflation we assess the role of a Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). The short-run stability of a NAIRU is examined taking into account real debt effects of accelerating and decelerating inflation, and the...

In this second issue of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP), the Papers and Proceedings of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), 1 we publish some invited papers which were presented at the 17th FMM conference on...