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...

Since the start of the European Monetary Union fiscal policy in the Euro area has been dominated by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). Quite obviously the SGP has been unsuccessful in fulfilling its goals, fiscal sustainability and supporting economic growth. More and more countries have...

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...

Vor dem Hintergrund der noch nicht konkret ausformulierten Konsolidierungsstrategie der österreichischen Bundesregierung sowie den ernst zu nehmenden konjunkturpolitischen Bedenken gegen eine forcierte Budgetkonsolidierung stellt sich die Frage, wie eine Erfolg versprechende mittelfristige,...

Vor dem Hintergrund der noch nicht konkret ausformulierten Konsolidierungsstrategie der österreichischen Bundesregierung sowie den ernst zu nehmenden konjunkturpolitischen Bedenken gegen eine forcierte Budgetkonsolidierung stellt sich die Frage, wie eine Erfolg versprechende mittelfristige,...

The euro area's sovereign debt crisis continues though significant steps have been taken to resolve it. This paper proposes a comprehensive solution to the crisis based on three pillars: a plan to restore banking sector soundness in the whole euro area, a resolution of sovereign debt crisis...