Most parts of the Euro area have seen seven years of deep economic crisis. The strategy of tightening the fiscal constraints of the SGP has driven many member states into austerity. In contrast, the golden rule of public investment proposed in this study would be one important element of the...

Die Eurokrise hat sich seit dem Sommer 2011 dadurch zugespitzt, dass der Finanzmarkt Italien und Spanien sowie viele europäische Banken wesentlich kritischer beurteilte und seine Kapitalzufuhr deutlich drosselte. Ein Grundproblem dabei ist, dass Italien so groß ist, dass es für die...

Current developments in Greece make clear that the rules of the European Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) were neither strict enough nor enforced strictly enough. To deal with the ongoing exit from the fiscal crisis and its related phenomena, we propose a new framework for fiscal policy...