Monetary Union and Fiscal Stability A New Approach

This book addresses the macroeconomic implications of a country's transition to a monetary union. By using a dynamic multi-country simulation model, it is possible to pinpoint a monetary union, and repercussions produced by fiscal retrenchment policies. Interest and exchange rate effects could...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bohn, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book addresses the macroeconomic implications of a country's transition to a monetary union. By using a dynamic multi-country simulation model, it is possible to pinpoint a monetary union, and repercussions produced by fiscal retrenchment policies. Interest and exchange rate effects could only be captured once a new approach including innovations in the solution methodology had been developed. Not only can we draw lessons for newly joining members to the EMU or to any other monetary union, but the analysis also implicitly offers a new explanation for the weak Euro in the first half of 1999
Physical Description:XIV, 225 p. 1 illus online resource
ISBN:9783642576393