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Thanks to the Maastricht Treaty and similar arrangements, central banks nowadays enjoy considerable independence. This is generally believed to be the result of relatively recent debates, which led to the conclusion that sheltering monetary authorities from the pressures of fiscal policymakers...
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This paper investigates the macroeconomic implications of different regimes of international fiscal coordination and monetary-fiscal cooperation in a monetary union with independent fiscal authorities that act strategically vis a vis a common central bank. In the presence of other policy goals...
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The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of … fiscal theory to interpret historical episodes, including the rise and fall of inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, the long … pegs, the ends of hyperinflations, currency crashes, and the success of inflation targets. Going forward, fiscal theory …
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informed by the "cartalist" critique of traditional "optimum currency area" theory (Goodhart 1998). Various proposals to rescue … of existing national public debts is involved. Instead, the Euro Treasury is established as a means to pool eurozone … public investment spending and have it funded by proper eurozone treasury securities. …
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Union to survive, rather than to disparities in the level of competitiveness among countries of the Eurozone. This crisis of …
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The present paper contains a brief presentation and analysis, in a historical perspective through the lens of the recent major crises, of the legal framework governing the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), as well as current developments and challenges ahead. It is structured in three...
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Euroraum in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Die Arbeit konzentriert sich dann insbesondere auf die Determinanten der Geldpolitik, weil …
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Policy mix problems may arise in a monetary union with centralized monetary policy and decentralized fiscal policy. A consequence of this may be an inappropriate stabilization of shocks. This paper addresses how policy coordination problems are affected by the objectives of the monetary...
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. Eurozone policymakers have ignored these inter-member imbalances and have instead concentrated on union-wide imbalances, so …
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raised here. First, diverging current account imbalances shaped the eurozone countries' vulnerability, but were not a cause …
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