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In the discussions on the need for fiscal rules and their usefulness in a monetary union, researchers have not agreed if financial markets have a sufficiently disciplining effect on governments, which would mean that the fiscal rules are not necessary. This paper investigates whether the...
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This paper examines the impact of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on the fiscal performance of EU member states …. I will show that the process towards EMU and the accompanying Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) have increased fiscal … EMU was more severe than for the large states in the core of the EU (Germany and France). Second, as members of the EMU …
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In this paper, the sustainability of public debt is interpreted as the result of the interaction of fiscal policy with the economic environment, and not as a statistical concept as in most of the recent literature. If debt must not explode over time, policy makers have to respond to the changing...
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another. EMU's fiscal rules - embodied in the Maastricht Treaty and the Stability and Growth Pact - can be regarded as the …
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The paper discusses the framework of ERM2 (the exchange rate mechanism of EMU, the Economic and Monetary Union) and its … of EMU). Second it reviews how ERM2 is conducive to future euro-zone membership of the accession countries. From the …
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dilemma with regard to the construction of the Economic dimension of EMU between two strong preferences: on the one hand the …
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reason for concern about the credible enforcement of the stability pact in future EMU. A game-theoretic approach supports …
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We extend the model of Leith and Wren-Lewis (2000) to the case of a monetary union. Within a two-country dynamic model with wealth private behaviours, we study the implications of stabilising public debt on monetary and fiscal policies. The model is a macroeconomic version of the Fiscal Theory...
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