With a large-scale econometric world model we derive policy multipliers and the parameters for the utility functions for 10 EMU countries and for the ECB. The gains from cooperation are calculated by comparing two equilibria, a Nash and a cooperative equilibrium. The cooperative equilibrium is...

The global financial and economic crisis in 2008-09 followed by a "Euro crisis" - not a crisis of the Euro but a sovereign debt (and/or banking) crisis in some Euro countries - forced to reforms of the asymmetric policy design of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Starting with ad-hoc rescue...