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Book Synopsis Independent Or Coordinated? Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Emu by : Luca Lambertini
Download or read book Independent Or Coordinated? Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Emu written by Luca Lambertini and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine, in a suitable theoretical framework, the relations between monetary and fiscal policies within the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Our stylized setup of EMU includes the following political agents, each endowed with an objective function: (i) A central authority (EC), which aims at maximizing a Social Welfare criterion; (ii) National Fiscal Authorities (FA), which pursue domestic output stabilization, (iii) the European Central Bank (ECB) which has a mandate to stabilize inflation. In this context we ask the following questions: - How would the EC want to direct (or coordinate) the national FA? - Do the EC decisions make control of inflation (the ECB mandate) easier or more difficult? - Do national FA have an incentive to obey to or to deviate from the EC directives? In response to the last question, our main result is that national FA may have an incentive to deviate, even if we exclude time-inconsistent motives in their preference functions, or motives linked to a failure to internalize aggregate demand spillovers. In particular, even in the absence of asymmetric shocks and of aggregate demand spillovers, EC authorities and national governments may have conflicting incentives, depending upon the relative size of disturbances to aggregate demand and supply. When both aggregate demand and supply shocks are positive (resp. negative) and the latter are large enough in absolute terms, then national governments will pursue a more expansionary (resp. contractionary) fiscal policy than it would be desirable from the point of view of social welfare. Our results imply that, if the EC authorities are required to enforce a social welfare function defined over aggregate output and inflation, then it may be necessary to endow the EC with appropriate enforcement devices with respect to the fiscal policy stance of individual member countries. This points to the necessity of having institutions (such as the Stability and Growth Pact, SGP) which help to coordinate and discipline the fiscal stance of member countries. While we do not discuss the specific provisions of the SGP, our conclusions strongly support the idea that the setting of fiscal policies by member countries needs to be disciplined, and in some instances possibly over-ruled, by the EC authorities.
Book Synopsis Monetary and Fiscal Policies in EMU by : Marco Buti
Download or read book Monetary and Fiscal Policies in EMU written by Marco Buti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars and policy makers examine the challenges that are facing economic policies in the EMU today.
Book Synopsis Fiscal Policy Independence in a European Monetary Union by : International Monetary Fund
Download or read book Fiscal Policy Independence in a European Monetary Union written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of whether constraints should be placed on fiscal policies when moving to European monetary union is examined in the context of the use of fiscal policy for macroeconomic stabilization purposes. Examples of shocks hitting French and German economies are considered: an appreciation of their joint exchange rate against other currencies, an inflation shock, and an oil price increase. Except in the third case, flexible use of fiscal policies in the two countries is likely to give better outcomes than a system with constraints on their use. For the oil price shock, there seems to be a good case for policy coordination, not for ceilings on fiscal deficits.
Book Synopsis One Money for Europe? by : Malcolm Crawford
Download or read book One Money for Europe? written by Malcolm Crawford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is on the road to monetary union (EMU) even if there may be delays and diversions on the way. The focal point of EMU will be its single currency, valid throughout all participating countries, and replacing the national currencies. There will be considerable transitional pain and stress, most of all for member states with very high public debts. For the rest, the road ahead will not be smooth, but should be assisted by easier monetary policy in Germany since 1993. For some countries at least, the pain will be aggravated unnecessarily by design defects in the transitional rules for entry - which there is still time to remedy. The author - no admirer of a federal Europe - describes how EMU could actually work better in a confederal Europe with no federal chief executive and with a relatively weak Parliament. The independent Eurofed would be responsible for managing economic policy on an EC-wide basis, while national governments could use fiscal policies to mitigate local deviations. Weak regions and poor peripheral countries would require more flexible assistance from EC resources, however.
Book Synopsis Macroeconomic Stabilisation in the Emu by : Lilia Cavallari
Download or read book Macroeconomic Stabilisation in the Emu written by Lilia Cavallari and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the macroeconomic implications of different regimes of international fiscal coordination and monetary-fiscal cooperation in a monetary union with independent fiscal authorities that act strategically vis a vis a common central bank. In the presence of other policy goals than cyclical stabilisation, such as interest rate smoothing and fiscal stability, we show that coordination among national fiscal authorities can reduce output and inflation volatility relative to the non-cooperative setting in specific circumstances, as in case of demand disturbances, while turning potentially counter-productive otherwise. The adverse effects of union-wide coordinated fiscal measures can be attenuated in a regime of global coordination, namely when a centralised fiscal stabilisation is coordinated with the common monetary policy as well.
Book Synopsis Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies by : International Monetary Fund
Download or read book Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, monetary authorities have increasingly focused on implementing policies to ensure price stability and strengthen central bank independence. Simultaneously, in the fiscal area, market development has allowed public debt managers to focus more on cost minimization. This “divorce” of monetary and debt management functions in no way lessens the need for effective coordination of monetary and fiscal policy if overall economic performance is to be optimized and maintained in the long term. This paper analyzes these issues based on a review of the relevant literature and of country experiences from an institutional and operational perspective.
Book Synopsis Macroeconomic Stabilization in the Emu by : Lilia Cavallari
Download or read book Macroeconomic Stabilization in the Emu written by Lilia Cavallari and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the macroeconomic implications of different regimes of international fiscal coordination and monetary-fiscal cooperation in a monetary union with independent fiscal authorities, that act strategically vis-a-vis a common central bank. In the presence of other policy goals than cyclical stabilization, such as interest rate smoothing and fiscal stability, we show that coordination among national fiscal authorities can reduce output and inflation volatility relative to the non-cooperative setting in specific circumstances, as in case of demand disturbances, while turning potentially counterproductive otherwise. The adverse effects of union-wide coordinated fiscal measures can be attenuated in a regime of global coordination, namely, when a centralized fiscal stabilization is coordinated with the common monetary policy as well.
Book Synopsis EMU's Decentralized System of Fiscal Policy by : Jürgen von Hagen
Download or read book EMU's Decentralized System of Fiscal Policy written by Jürgen von Hagen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. The fiscal dominance case for the SGP - 3. What do national governments do with their fiscal policies? - 4. Mutual insurance via transfers - 5. Institutional requirements for a transer system - 6. Conclusions reform - 9. Conclusions.
Book Synopsis Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union by : Marco Buti
Download or read book Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union written by Marco Buti and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the origins, rationale, problems and prospects of the European fiscal policy framework. It provides the reader with a roadmap to EMU's budgetary framework by exploring its theoretical and empirical foundations, uncovering its historical roots and emphasising its supranational nature. The authors, who have been at the forefront of the academic and policy debate on economic policy in Europe, argue that fiscal policy has always been at the core of the EMU debate. The Maastricht criteria and the Stability and Growth Pact are the most contentious building blocks of EMU's institutional architecture: they have aroused heated controversies between academics and policymakers ever since their adoption. As EMU's budgetary rules undergo their first severe shock, Europe is still searching for its fiscal soul. The book's basic premise is that one cannot fully understand EMU's fiscal framework and the recent debate on its reform without placing them in a historical and institutional perspective and abstracting from the uniqueness of EMU, where sovereign countries retain a large degree of fiscal independence, and monetary policy is entrusted to an independent central bank with the overriding mission of maintaining price stability. Analysing all aspects of EMU's fiscal rules and institutions, this book will strongly appeal to students, academics and researchers of macroeconomic policy and European integration. Policymakers and fiscal policy experts at both national and international levels will also find the book to be of great interest.
Book Synopsis Fiscal Policy Coordination Under EMU and the Choice of Monetary Instrument by : Paul Levine
Download or read book Fiscal Policy Coordination Under EMU and the Choice of Monetary Instrument written by Paul Levine and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fiscal Policy Coordination Under Emu and the Choice of Monetary Instrument/ Paul Levine by : Paul Levine
Download or read book Fiscal Policy Coordination Under Emu and the Choice of Monetary Instrument/ Paul Levine written by Paul Levine and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of the EMU and Other Monetary Unions by : Roel M. W. J. Beetsma
Download or read book The Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of the EMU and Other Monetary Unions written by Roel M. W. J. Beetsma and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article provides an overview of recent research into the macroeconomic costs and benefits of monetary unification. We are primarily interested in Europes monetary union. Given that unification entails the loss of a policy instrument its potential benefits have to be found elsewhere. Unification may serve as a vehicle for beneficial institutional changes. In particular, it may be a route towards an independent monetary policy, which alleviates the scope for political pressure to relax monetary policy. Unification also eliminates harmful monetary policy spill-overs and competitive devaluations. We explore how disagreement between the monetary and fiscal authorities about their policy objectives can lead to extreme macroeconomic outcomes. Further, we pay considerable attention to the desirability (or not) of fiscal constraints and fiscal coordination in a monetary union. Monetary commitment and fiscal free-riding play a key role in this regard. Similar free-riding issues also feature prominently in the analysis of how unification influences structural reforms. We end with a brief discussion of monetary unification outside Europe. The cost-benefit trade-off of unification may differ substantially between industrialized and less-developed countries, where differences in fiscal needs and, hence, the reliance on seigniorage revenues may dominate the scope for unification.
Book Synopsis Policy Coordination in EMU by : Irene Vera Wanner
Download or read book Policy Coordination in EMU written by Irene Vera Wanner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (Emu) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments by : Francesco Paolo Mongelli
Download or read book Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (Emu) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments written by Francesco Paolo Mongelli and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the interest spending and taxation channels through which EMU could affect the public finances. It provides a framework for examining different views on a further narrowing of interest rate differentials. A model of Blanchard and Fischer is amended to analyze the two channels, and empirical evidence on the tax harmonization process is presented. The paper argues that quot;high-debtquot; and quot;high-taxquot; countries pursuing prudent fiscal policies could benefit the most from EMU: if monetary and widespread fiscal discipline are jointly established, interest rates could decline rapidly, while tax harmonization is likely to be gradual.
Book Synopsis Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination in EMU by : Jürgen von Hagen
Download or read book Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination in EMU written by Jürgen von Hagen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Managing the Sovereign-Bank Nexus by : Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia
Download or read book Managing the Sovereign-Bank Nexus written by Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews empirical and theoretical work on the links between banks and their governments (the bank-sovereign nexus). How significant is this nexus? What do we know about it? To what extent is it a source of concern? What is the role of policy intervention? The paper concludes with a review of recent policy proposals.
Book Synopsis Europe and the Euro by : Alberto Alesina
Download or read book Europe and the Euro written by Alberto Alesina and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is rare for countries to give up their currencies and thus their ability to influence such critical aspects of their economies as interest and exchange rates. Yet ten years ago a number of European countries did exactly that when they adopted the euro. Despite some dissent, there were a number of arguments in favor of this policy change: it would facilitate exchange of goods, money, and people by decreasing costs; it would increase trade; and it would enhance efficiency and competitiveness at the international level. A decade is an ideal time frame over which to evaluate the success of the euro and whether it has lived up to expectations. To that aim, Europe and the Euro looks at a number of important issues, including the effects of the euro on reform of goods and labor markets; its influence on business cycles and trade among members; and whether the single currency has induced convergence or divergence in the economic performance of member countries. While adoption of the euro may not have met the expectations of its most optimistic proponents, the benefits have been many, and there is reason to believe that the euro is robust enough to survive recent economic shocks. This volume is an essential reference on the first ten years of the euro and the workings of a monetary union.
