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Monetary policy, macroeconomic policy mix and economic performance in the Euro area

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2006

In order to explain slow growth and high unemployment in the Euro area, in particular if compared to the USA, we follow a macroeconomic policy view focussing on the more restrictive stance of monetary, fiscal and wage policies in the Euro area. In the present paper we focus on the particular...

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Fiscal policy and macroeconomic performance in the Euro area : lessons for the future

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2006

Seit dem Begin der Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU) steht die Finanzpolitik in den Staaten des Euroraums ganz im … der Finanzpolitik für den Zeitraum von 2001 bis 2005 im Euroraum und seinen einzelnen Mitgliedsstaaten und vergleicht sie … mit denen der Finanzpolitik in den USA. Während die US-Finanzpolitik aktiv anti-zyklisch dem Abschwung entgegengewirkt hat …

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Austerity, cyclical adjustment and the remaining leeway for expansionary fiscal policies in the Euro area

Truger, Achim - 2014

Fiscal policy in the Euro area is still dominated by austerity measures implemented under the institutional setting of the 'reformed' stability and growth pact, and the even stricter 'fiscal compact'. At the same time, calls for a more expansionary fiscal policy to overcome the economic crisis...

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The golden rule of public investment : a necessary and sufficient reform of the EU fiscal framework?

Truger, Achim - 2016

Dass die Fiskalpolitik innerhalb der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik einer Aufwertung bedarf, ist angesichts der … Finanzpolitik insgesamt größere Spielräume einräumen und die öffentlichen Investitionen als besonders wachstumsrelevante öffentliche …

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The European financial and economic crisis : alternative solutions from a (post-) Keynesian perspective

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim; Treeck, Till van - 2011

The financial and economic crisis in the Euro area has revealed a number of important flaws in the economic policy framework in Europe. On the one hand, the imbalances, which have dominated European development since the introduction of the euro, are not sustainable; and this is more serious in a...

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Macroeconomic policies, wage developments, and Germany's stagnation : [Paper presented at the conference: Germany's Economic Performance: From Unification to Euroisation, Anglo-Ger...

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2005

, einer zu restriktiven und teilweise prozyklischen Finanzpolitik sowie einer übermäßig zurückhaltenden Lohnpolitik in …

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Austerity in the Euro area: The sad state of economic policy in Germany and the EU

Truger, Achim - 2013

The Euro area is currently going through its worst period of recession and economic stagnation since the Great Depression and World War II. The article tries to give an impression of the extraordinary degree of fiscal austerity and the devastating economic effects it has already had and must be...

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Austerity, cyclical adjustment and the remaining leeway for expansionary fiscal policies within the current EU fiscal framework

Truger, Achim - 2015

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Future fiscal and debt policies: Germany in the Context of the European Monetary Union

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2013

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...

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Reducing economic imbalances in the euro area: Some remarks on the current stability programs, 2011-14

Semieniuk, Gregor; van Treeck, Till; Truger, Achim - 2011

This paper evaluates whether the 2011 national stability programs (SPs) of the euro area countries are instrumental in achieving economic stability in the European Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, we analyze how the SPs address the double challenge of public deficits and external imbalances....

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