Acocella, Nicola (2014) The theoretical roots of the EMU institutions and policies during the crisis. Working Paper. Dipartimento di Metodi e modelli per l'economia, il territorio e la finanza (MEMOTEF), Roma.
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Abstract
In this paper we aim at two targets: i) to look for the theoretical roots of the EMU institutions and to check whether the current economic doctrine still supports them; ii) to discuss the appropriateness of these institutions and the policies adopted by European policymakers in order to exit the crisis, specifically with respect to the issues of fiscal policy and public debt. A general issue of inappropriateness of institutions arises both sides of the Atlantic. However, in Europe the problems raised by the specific nature of the crisis of the private debt have been augmented by those of the public debt for reasons again related to the institutional framework. The evolution of economic thought can contribute to explain the differences between the policies that were adopted on the two sides of the Atlantic through its influence on the respective institutions. Time has passed which should have led to a radical change of most of the still current institutional architecture, but a sort of hysteresis is in place. This has a number of possible explanations, such as those underlined by Galbraith (1987). However, in order to explain it one should refer not only to normal and physiological lags, but also the opposing interests, the value judgments and visions prevailing in some European countries and the dominant role of Germany, which conveys them.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Working paper del Dipartimento di Metodi e modelli per l'economia il territorio e la finanza, Università di Roma La Sapienza, ISSN 2239608X, Working paper n.126 March 2014 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Institutions, European monetary union, History of economic thought, Monetary policy, Fiscal policy |
| Subjects: | 300 Scienze sociali > 330 Economia |
| Depositing User: | Marco Martini |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2014 12:33 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Apr 2014 12:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/8726 |
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