This book explores the origins, rationale, problems and prospects of the European fiscal policy framework. It provides the reader with a roadmap to EMU's budgetary framework by exploring its theoretical and empirical foundations, uncovering its historical roots and emphasising its supranational...

Europa ist zum ?Kranken Mann? geworden. Schwere Krisen haben die Wirtschaft erschüttert. Die EZB versucht mithilfe der Druckerpresse den Patienten am Leben zu halten. Die Folgen: Nullzinsen, immense Staatsverschuldung und eine drohende Inflation. Ökonom Hans-Werner Sinn warnt in seinem neuen...

This book studies the international coordination of monetary and fiscal policies in the world economy. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on monetary and fiscal competition between Europe and...