conclusions for fiscal behavior in Europe after the transition to EMU? These are the central questions that are analyzed in this …

Since the start of EMU national fiscal policy in the Eurozone can be conducted almost without paying any attention to … the fiscal balance - a result backing an optimistic view on fiscal discipline under EMU. On the other hand, however, there … is the result that a high degree of openness has a deficit reducing impact. This is a worrying result in the EMU context …

EMU driven interest rate convergence has led to a significant reduction of borrowing costs for some European …

for 10 EMU countries and for the ECB. The gains from cooperation are calculated by comparing two equilibria, a Nash and a … as a whole with the targets output gap and inflation. In the case of a "full" cooperation, where the 10 EMU countries … manoeuvre of fiscal policy of the EMU member states in stage III of EMU. Secondly, we find that not in all countries cooperation …

Leaving EMU would create great legal uncertainty and costly litigation and would hence involve extremely high costs for … scenarios, whereby particular emphasis is paid to the case where a country decides unilaterally to leave EMU either because of …, implying a non-trivial possibility of escalating tension among the EMU members. …