The Target imbalances within the Eurozone can be interpreted as a sign of a missing balance of payments adjustment mechanism for the member countries. As the Eurozone lacks a fiscal union, in economic theory it is more an exchange rate union or a system of fixed exchange rates than a monetary...

Modem neo-Keynesian, new classical and real business cycle models typically differ in the degree to which they incorporate certain long-run or even short-run neutrality propositions. Given the importance of these neutrality propositions, it is somewhat surprising how little firm international...