Grauwe, Paul de; Ji, Yuemei - Bank of Greece - 2013
The nature of fiscal policies was changed dramatically by the creation of the Eurozone. While prior to the start of the … Eurozone, national governments were sovereign in that they could back up the issue of debt by the issue of money, they lost … this sovereignty in the Eurozone. This had dramatic effects that were largely overlooked by the designers of the Eurozone …