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Eu fiscal policy coordination in hard times : free riders on the storm
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ISBN: 9780198829010 0198829019 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Recent accounts of the EU have portrayed the union as plagued by an austerity regime and rampant moral hazard. The author provides an alternative account of economic cooperation in Europe during the Great Recession and the European Debt Crisis. Drawing on Mancur Olson's theory of collective action, this volume combines evidence from statistical analysis and extensive interviews with key players. This book reaches an unexpected conclusion regarding the state of collective action in times of crises: free riding was not rife. Despite heated accusations, member states crisis policies matched their fiscal room for maneuver. The real collective action failure is instead diagnosed in the inability to sanction free riders at the EU level and empowering erratic bond markets to discipline governments.


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Financial Stability Policy in the Euro Zone : The Political Economy of National Banking Regulation in an Integrating Monetary Union
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ISBN: 3658042133 3658009829 3658009837 Year: 2014 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler,

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Banking regulation is an economically powerful and politically very salient instrument of economic policy. After all, the financial crisis had derived from an over-leveraged banking system obviating the importance of banking regulation for the functioning of regulatory capitalism. Gundbert Scherf’s research focuses on this nexus between integrated banking, supranational monetary policy and national banking regulation. He finds that national level differences in financial systems and related institutions explain and drive variation in regulatory financial stability policy across countries. Applying game-theoretical rigor to political economy interactions, Gundbert Scherf develops a model of time-inconsistent supervisory policy as well as international competition in regulatory standards. He shows how these patterns lead to financial instability, by analyzing the original members of the Euro Zone as well as the US and the UK in the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2007/8.     Contents ·         Varieties of financial systems and regulatory preferences ·         Banking regulation in an integrating financial market ·         Interaction of banking supervision and monetary policy ·         Time consistency problems in supervisory policy      Target Groups ·         Researchers and students in the fields of economics, political economy, and finance interested in financial systems, regulation and supervisory policy ·         Central bankers, regulators, and executives in banking and finance    The Author Dr. Gundbert Scherf wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Henrik Enderlein, Chair of Political Economy, at the Freie Universität Berlin.


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Enforcement and the Stability and Growth Pact : How Fiscal Policy Did and Did Not Change Under Europe’s Fiscal Framework
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ISBN: 1451863764 1462334679 1451909101 9786613823861 1452781427 128351141X Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The Stability and Growth Pact has been a success in numerous EU countries, especially in guiding them toward underlying fiscal balance ahead of population aging. These countries tend to be smaller, subject to greater macroeconomic volatility, and reliant on a form of fiscal governance that emphasizes targets and contracts. Most of the new members share these characteristics. For the countries less compatible with the Pact, domestic governance reforms that increase the reputational costs for noncompliance can be useful complements to the fiscal framework.


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Does Government Spending Crowd In Private Consumption? Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area
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ISBN: 1462370004 1452717877 1283515814 1451907141 9786613828262 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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In this paper, we revisit the effects of government spending shocks on private consumption within an estimated New-Keynesian DSGE model of the euro area featuring non-Ricardian households. Employing Bayesian inference methods, we show that the presence of non- Ricardian households is in general conducive to raising the level of consumption in response to government spending shocks when compared with the benchmark specification without non-Ricardian households. However, we find that there is only a fairly small chance that government spending shocks crowd in consumption, mainly because the estimated share of non-Ricardian households is relatively low, but also because of the large negative wealth effect induced by the highly persistent nature of government spending shocks.


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Capital Account Liberalization, Capital Flow Patterns, and Policy Responses in the EU's New Member States.
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ISBN: 1462314503 145274713X 1283516543 9786613828996 1451907680 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper discusses the experience of the EU's eight new member countries (EU8) between 1995 and 2003 when the bulk of capital account liberalization took place, focusing on interest-rate-sensitive portfolio flows and financial flows. It takes stock of the lessons from capital flow patterns to draw policy conclusions. There were two distinct groups in terms of the speed of capital account liberalization: rapid liberalizers and cautious liberalizers. The speed of disinflation and the level of public debt were major determinants of the size of interest-rate-sensitive portfolio inflows. Monetary and exchange rate policies were the main instruments used to react to large interest-sensitive inflows, whereas fiscal tightening was seldom used as a direct reaction to inflows.


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Implementing the Stability and Growth Pact : Enforcement and Procedural Flexibility
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ISBN: 1462398278 1452729999 1282110357 1451906145 9786613803245 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The paper analyzes some key policy trade-offs involved in the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact. Greater "procedural" flexibility in the Pact's implementation may improve welfare. Procedural flexibility designates the enforcer's room to apply judgment on underlying policies and to set a consolidation path that does not discourage high-quality measures. Budgetary opaqueness may hinder the qualitative assessment of fiscal policy; therefore, better monitoring and greater transparency would increase the benefits from procedural flexibility. Overall, a simple deficit rule with conditional procedural flexibility can contain excessive deficits, lower unproductive spending, and increase high-quality outlays.


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Ruling Europe : the politics of the Stability and Growth Pact
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ISBN: 9780521197502 0521197503 9780521283304 9780511750380 0521283302 1107205271 0511847181 9786612630514 0511748884 0511749635 0511742010 0511750382 0511744161 1282630512 0511743084 9780511749636 9780511743085 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) is central to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. Initiated by Germany in 1995 and adopted in 1997, it regulates the fiscal policies of European Union Member States. Following numerous violations of its deficit reference value, the Pact's Excessive Deficit Procedure was suspended in 2003. The decision to suspend was brought before the European Court of Justice in 2004 and the SGP then underwent painstaking reform in 2005. After a period of economic prosperity and falling budgetary deficits, the global economic crisis put the system under renewed stress. Ruling Europe presents a comprehensive analysis of the political history of the SGP as the cornerstone of EMU. It examines the SGP through different theoretical lenses, offering a fascinating study of European integration and institutional design. One cannot understand the Euro without first understanding the SGP.

Monetary policy, fiscal policies, and labour markets : macroeconomic policymaking in the EMU
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ISBN: 0521823080 052104183X 0511185510 0511184689 0511327005 0511492383 1280458275 0511187327 0511186398 1107146119 9780511184680 9780511187322 9780511186394 9780521823081 9780511185519 9786610458271 6610458278 9780511492389 9781280458279 9780521041836 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Following the birth of the European Monetary Union (EMU) economists are still divided in their assessment of the ability of its key institutions to provide macroeconomic stability and foster the reforms necessary to stimulate economic growth. In this collection, experts focus on issues of fiscal policy, monetary policy and labour markets and ask: Can the stability and growth pact provide an adequate framework for the conduct of national fiscal policies? Is the ECB reacting with competence and flexibility to a rapidly changing macroeconomic environment? How do national labour markets react to the macroeconomic institutions and what are the structural reforms needed in labour markets? Blending empirical and theoretical data, this book offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of research in macroeconomic policymaking within the EMU.


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Can Budget Institutions Counteract Political Indiscipline?
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ISBN: 1451863837 1462396224 1451987250 9786613821133 1452705755 1282447939 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The budget is an expression of political rather than economic priorities. We confirm this proposition for a group of new and potential members of the European Union, finding that politics dominates. The contemporary practice of democracy can increase budget deficits through not only ideological preferences but also more fragmented government coalitions and higher voter participation. Long-term structural forces, triggered by societal divisions and representative electoral rules, have more ambiguous implications but also appear to increase budget pressures, as others have also found. However, our most robust, and hopeful, finding is that budget institutions-mechanisms and rules of the budget process-that create checks and balances have significant value even when the politics is representative but undisciplined, and when long-term structural forces are unfavorable.

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