Using a four-country Mundell–Fleming model including portfolio and wealth effects, we explore the question whether some types of policy coordination could improve the outcomes of a financial shock like the Asian crisis. Time-consistent equilibria are computed : a Nash equilibrium, a target...

This paper aims at establishing the link between economic performance and financial stability in the European Union. We use the seminal framework – both in terms of variables and econometric method – of Beck and Levine (2004) to estimate this causal relationship, independently from but...