Die Staatsschuldenquoten werden infolge der Coronakrise weltweit erheblich steigen. Angesichts des strikten fiskalischen Regelwerks für die Mitgliedsländer der EU und insbesondere des Euroraums bedeutet das eine enorme Herausforderung. Die Europäische Kommission berät seit Anfang des Jahres...

Debt-to-GDP ratios are set to rise significantly all over the world as a result of the coronavirus crisis. This will pose a huge challenge for the EU's member states and in particular the euro area countries, because of the strict fiscal rules that apply to them. In a consultation process that...

To address the on-going crisis in the euro area it is proposed to introduce a scheme of conditional, overt monetary financing of public investment (COMFOPI). The inadequate response of monetary and fiscal policy is shown to explain the weak performance of the euro area compared with other...

Der Beitrag beschreibt und bewertet die wirtschafspolitische Maßnahmen, die auf EU-Ebene als Reaktion auf die Coronapandemie beschlossen wurden oder sich noch in politischen Beratungen befinden. Die EZB hat schnell reagiert, die Liquiditätsunterstützung massiv ausgeweitet und die Regeln für...

Since the beginning of 2010, the Euro Area faces a severe sovereign debt crisis, now generally known as the Euro Crisis. While the Euro Crisis has its origin in Greece, problems have now spread to several other European countries as well. Dynamic conditional correlation models (DCC) are...

This policy brief presents the new EU fiscal rules with a focus on its core element, the so-called debt-sustainability-analysis (DSA). Our results suggest first that the new rules will lead to substantial fiscal consolidation in the next years albeit less severe than the austerity measures...

Against the background of the European Commission's reform plans of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) this policy brief uses the macroeconometric multi-country model NiGEM to simulate the macroeconomic implications of the most relevant reform options from 2024 onwards. Next to a return to the...

The fourth book in the 'European Public Investment Outlook' series focuses on the urgent issue of how to finance needed investment in critical tangible and intangible infrastructure given high levels of public debt, a thorny problem facing many governments across Europe. Drawing on expertise...

This article provides an overview of the impact of public sector pay and employment cutbacks in EU countries and discusses their justifi cation as part of austerity packages. It begins with the outcomes in the countries first hit by the economic crisis before discussing the impact of the crisis...