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The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone - either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
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each other, it is often claimed that the EU fiscal framework, by reducing the budgetary room for manoeuvre and the … empirical evidence supporting this argument. In a sample of EU-15 countries over the past three decades, the introduction of the …
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Under numerical fiscal rules, such as those underpinning EMU, governments have strong temptations to use accounting tricks to meet the fiscal constraints. Given these political incentives, fiscal variables that in the past were regarded as a mere residual acquire a strategic role. This is the...
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