provision of lender of last resort facilities in the euro zone and the framework for supervising financial institutions. The … Growth Pact have been justified by the threat high debts might pose to the stability of the euro zone's financial markets. I …

, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …