In order to analyze successful strategies for economic policy in a global environment both international interdependencies and the strategic behavior of “global players†must be considered. We use a global model of the world economy (the MSG2 Model) to show the effects of dynamic...

This paper examines the design of macroeconomic policies after Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) have joined the EU. We consider scenarios with and without CEECs being members of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and analyze consequences of different intermediate...

In this paper, we analyze the reactions of European economies to a fiscal policy strategy aiming at diminishing the public sector. Within the framework of the MSG3 model, a macroeconomic model of the world economy, we perform several simulation experiments to explore the effects of reducing...