Bernoth, Kerstin; Burauel, Patrick; Engler, Philipp - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 10, pp. 12-18
Member countries of the euro area, and the peripheral states in particular, face an especially difficult problem: on the one hand, they urgently need stronger economic growth to reduce high debt and unemployment levels. On the other hand, however, they have no scope to use fiscal policy to...