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By distinguishing between discretionary and non-discretionary fiscal policy, this paper analyses the stability of fiscal rules for EMU countries before and after the Maastricht Treaty. Using both Instrumental Variables and GMM techniques, it turns out that discretionary fiscal policy has...
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Against the commonly accepted view that in the run-up to EMU the Maastricht fiscal restraints were quite effective in re-aligning public finances in Member States that were showing large excessive deficits, Strauch and von Hagen stress that there are some objections concerning this initial sign...
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In the absence of rules, free-riding budgetary behaviour would push up interest rates in the area as a whole. The architecture of EMU would raise the question of Stackelberg leadership in a potentially damaging and unstable monetary-budgetary game. (The ECB is not the Bundesbank). As there is no...
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recommendations both for new member states (on how to manage their accession to the Eurozone) and for the European Commission, ECB and … current Eurozone members, and should further improve before Eurozone entry, decreasing risk of their exposure to idiosyncratic … credibility of the Euro and price stability in the Eurozone will not be threatened by fast EMU Enlargement. Neither can the …
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This paper extends the Mundell-Fleming model to a monetary union between two countries that are different with regard to the determinants of aggregate demand, demand for money, foreign trade, price and wage adjustment. Depending on these national disparities in structural parameters, a fiscal...
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The monetary integration of the acceding countries will proceed in several distinct steps, starting with membership in the European Union (EU), followed by participation in the so-called Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) II and ultimately entry into the euro area. This paper addresses the question...
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This paper examines the conditions for fiscal restraint to emerge as Nash equilibrium in the game between fiscal authorities in a monetary union and discusses the implications for the ECB`s monetary strategy. We show that fiscal authorities fail to internalize the adverse area-wide effects of...
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