Showing 1 - 10 of 12
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074699
alternative policy proposals is to generate sustainably high demand and output growth in the euro area as a whole, providing high … “balance-of-payments-constrained growth rate.” Based on this framework, we outline the required stance for alternative economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045723
We analyse the long-run imbalances of finance-dominated capitalism underlying the present crisis - which began in 2007 - with a focus on developments in the US and Germany. We argue that beyond inefficient regulation of the financial sector, the severeness of the present crisis has been mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955073
Currently fiscal policies in Germany seem to be in a very comfortable position and the German Debt Brake is regarded as an institutional precondition for this success and has been exported to the Euro area in the guise of the Fiscal Compact. In this paper we scrutinize German fiscal policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955076
examination of the pre-crisis demand and growth regime, the focus is on how financialisation has contributed to the German 'export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955091
In this paper the euro crisis is viewed as the most recent episode of the crisis of financedominated capitalism. Therefore, two major features of finance-dominated capitalism, the increasing inequality of income distribution and the rising imbalances of current accounts, are analysed for a set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955094
-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and employment-oriented alternative to this restrictive policy mix. Contrary to the strict … alternative requires the coordination of monetary, fiscal and wage policies in order to achieve growth, high employment and price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327899
concept of money and their satisfaction may be largely endogenous to shifts in the economic policy regime. Growth and …, in this paper the effects of the new EMU institutional framework for monetary, fiscal and wage policies on overall growth … has neither been conducive to aggregate growth nor to real convergence across the euro area. In order to improve growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327917
growth and employment problems in the EU. These guidelines have been the EU-economic policy concept for ten years now, but … this concept has not been able to generate sustained growth in the EU. Examining the guidelines we show the weaknesses of … the economic policy model behind it and outline an alternative concept which promises more growth for Europe in the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327942
real GDP growth, on the growth contributions of the main demand aggregates, and the financial balances of the macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085013