This study contains four essays in the areas of fiscal-monetary policy coordination, public finance and optimal monetary institutions. Essay 1 analyses inflation targeting in an economy with decentralised monetary and fiscal policies and centralised wage setting.Depending on the specification of...

This paper explores under what conditions a European Monetary Union (EMU) is an optimum currency area. The scope for an EMU increases with convergence of structural and fiscal policies, small money holdings, a conservative European Central Bank, and dependent national central banks. How national...