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Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilisation in the Euro Area: Possible Reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact and National Decision-Making-Processes

Lars Calmfors, Giancarlo Corsetti, John Flemming, Seppo Honkapohja, John Kay, Willi Leibfritz, Gilles Saint-Paul, Hans-Werner Sinn, Xavier Vives
Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, 2003

in: EEAG European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo: Report on the European Economy 2003, 46-75

This chapter analyses the role of fiscal policy as a tool of macroeconomic stabilisation and proposes changes in the EU fiscal rules with the aim of making them more flexible while at the same time maintaining fiscal discipline.

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Lars Calmfors, Giancarlo Corsetti, John Flemming, Seppo Honkapohja, John Kay, Willi Leibfritz, Gilles Saint-Paul, Hans-Werner Sinn, Xavier Vives
Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, 2003