The paper by Faini focuses on the relationship between fiscal policy and interest rates. With reference to the European context, the paper addresses two issues. First, it investigates whether national fiscal policies either affect country specific spreads or the average level of euro-area...

This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of EMU on trade, adding two new elements. First, we propose a theoretical model for explaining how the euro could have increased trade by the large amounts found in the empirical literature. Second, we propose a sectoral dataset to test the...