This paper studies the dynamics of sovereign risk, fiscal policy and the macroeconomy in a two-country monetary union framework under the assumption of a heterogeneous perception of the determinants of sovereign risk by the government and the market participants. The macroeconomic volatility...

We extend the model of Leith and Wren-Lewis (2000) to the case of a two-country monetary union, incorporating adaptive expectations. An asymmetry between the stabilisation properties of the two fiscal policies is introduced: only one country is fiscally-constrained by the dispositions of the...

We consider the political economy of a monetary union where member governments attempt to influence the policy of the common central bank. Modeling this as a common agency with incentive contracts, we show that if incentives are all that matters for the bank, the equilibrium implements a...