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This paper evaluates the Stability and Growth Pact. After examining the rules in place and the experience so far, the Pact is analysed from a political economy perspective, focusing on the choice for so-called soft law and drawing inferences from characteristics of successful fiscal rules at the...
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This paper evaluates the Stability and Growth Pact. After examining the rules in place and the experience so far, the Pact is analysed from a political economy perspective, focusing on the choice for so-called soft law and drawing inferences from characteristics of successful fiscal rules at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315860
This report reflects on recent trends in fiscal and monetary policies at the onset of EU-enlargement. Particularly, the authors focus on necessary adjustment processes for future EU-members. How to smooth best the transition period between normal EU-accession and eventual participation in the...
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policy, where the main features characterising the policy-making are similar to those in EMU. National governments choose the …
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(part II) of Benelux, France and Germany (EMU-5) covering the period of 1997-2004. The fiscal policy part concentrates on … monetary policy affairs, the heterogeneity of EMU-5 members is surveyed. The brief analysis of two main aspects of the monetary …
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The EMU fiscal system is specific in many areas compared to other classic fiscal systems of national states. Specific … features mainly reflect in the implementation of economic policy within the EMU which is carried out by combining a common … internal market. Finally, the third segment refers to the fiscal policy coordination of the EMU member states related to …
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
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game approach of the endogenous coalition formation literature. The specific policy recommendations in the EMU context …
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In this paper we consider a number of key issues related to the policy coordination in a monetary union that has been recently discussed in the literature. To this end we propose a multi-country New-Keynesian model of a monetary union cast in the framework of linear quadratic differential games....
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This paper assesses the contribution of the European Central Bank (ECB) to Germany's ongoing economic crisis, a vicious circle of decline in which the country has become stuck since the early 1990s. It is argued that the ECB continues the Bundesbank tradition of asymmetric policymaking: the bank...
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