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Başçı, Erdem - 2007

1. Opening remarks -- 2. Fiscal policies and sustainability of public finances in the European Union -- 3. Fiscal policy challenges, sustainability of public finances and EU accession : the case of Turkey -- 4. Monetary policy in the Euro area : lessons from five years of the ECB and then...

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Regional currency areas in financial globalization : a survey of current issues

Cartapanis, André (contributor); … - 2005

This book is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the key issues and challenges facing regional currency area projects in the context of financial globalization. The authors focus on several central issues that emerged during the experiences of the 1990s and 2000s: exchange...

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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin

Tobin, James - 2003

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

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Fiscal policy in economic and monetary union : theory, evidence, and institutions

Buti, Marco - 2006

This book explores the origins, rationale, problems and prospects of the European fiscal policy framework. It provides the reader with a roadmap to EMU's budgetary framework by exploring its theoretical and empirical foundations, uncovering its historical roots and emphasising its supranational...

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Growth and cohesion in the European Union : the impact of macroeconomic policy

Mitchell, William (ed.); Muysken, J. (ed.); … - 2006

This book is a critical review of current fiscal and monetary policy in Europe and presents results of both empirical research and a discussion of the theoretical framework behind the policy of the European Central Bank and the Stability and Growth Pact. Macroeconomic policy is often hotly...

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Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement

Clinch, J. Peter (contributor) - 2002

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...

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Fiscal policy and interest rates in the European Union

Knot, Klaas - 1996

Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates in the European Union is a comprehensive study concerned with the potential effects of fiscal policy on financial markets in the European Union. It takes into account the gradual liberalization of capital movements throughout Western Europe and the institutional...

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The public sector in Japan : past developments and future prospects

Ihori, Toshihiro; Doi, Takerō - 2009

economic concerns in Japan's public sector. These include the macroeconomic incidence of fiscal decentralization, dependence on … government bonds for covering fiscal deficits, and social security reform. In analyzing Japan's underperforming public sector …, the authors develop and recommend policy solutions aimed at achieving Japan's growth potential, improving the quality of …

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Fiscal fragmentation in decentralized countries : subsidiarity, solidarity and asymmetry

Bird, Richard M. (contributor); Ebel, Robert D. (contributor) - 2007

Most countries, developed and developing, are fiscally decentralized with regional and local governments of varying importance. In many of these countries, some of these sub-national governments differ substantially from others in terms of wealth, ethnic, religious, or linguistic composition....

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Handbook of fiscal federalism

Ahmad, Ehtisham (ed.); Brosio, Giorgio (ed.) - 2006

This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of "fiscal federalism", providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors...

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