Faced with the impossibility of reaching a political agreement to review the fiscal treaties, the Commission could limit itself to applying the current rules with flexibility, which would maintain an ambiguous situation: much ado about nothing.

The aim of the paper is to compare the sensitivity of a government's fiscal policy and a central bank's monetary policy, which are in Nash equilibrium in the case of a non-cooperative game between the government and the central bank in Czechia, Hungary, and Romania. The analysis for each country...

The paper discusses the proposals of the EU Commission for the reform of the EU fiscal rules. Against the background of the devel-opment of the rules and the experience with the compliance, it becomes clear that the proposals represent a change of course. The decentral-iszed responsibility in...

The fiscal framework needs in practice to achieve a balance between, on the one hand, effective budgetary rules that allow governments to commit to sound policies and, on the other, judgements and discretion in how these are applied so that the framework adequately reflects the complexity of the...

Inhalt:br 1. Die öffentlichen Kredithilfenbr 2. Hat das Geld geholfen?br 3. An wen flossen die Kredite?br 4. Die Zinsnachlässebr 5. Das Risiko der Geberländerbr 6. Der Verlust der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und vier Optionen für Griechenlandbr 7. Vor- und Nachteile des Grexitbr 8. Zum Prozedere...