European Economic Policies at Work : the costs of Price Stability and Budget Consolidation

The paper investigates whether the policy framework adopted by the EMU participating countries might create recessive tendencies. First, we check the existence of a deflationary bias by separately analysing monetary and fiscal policy. The analysis of monetary policy focuses on a backward- and a forw...

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Main Authors: Carlo Altavilla, Ugo Marani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università Carlo Cattaneo LIUC 2005-06-01
Series:The European Journal of Comparative Economics
Subjects:
ECB
EMU
Online Access:http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979200501/182429792005020106.pdf