The Great Recession after 2008 did not turn out to be as deep and severe as the Great Depression of the 1930s. According to the European Commission, this positive result is due to the fact that economic policy-makers around the world learnt their lessons from the Great Depression in stabilizing...

After neutering the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) in 2005, recent developments pinpoint that financial markets considerably discriminate between qualities of European governmental borrowers. In this article we inquire whether and to what extent political statements and decisions within the...

Die Schuldenkrise in der EWU hat immer wieder Forderungen nach einer stärkeren Gemeinschaftshaftung hervorgebracht, was allerdings dem Wunsch nach nationaler Souveränität widerspricht. Systemkonformer und stabilisierend wäre eine Reform der einheitlichen Anleihebedingungen. So könnte eine...

I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...

The monetary integration of the acceding countries will proceed in several distinct steps, starting with membership in the European Union (EU), followed by participation in the so-called Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) II and ultimately entry into the euro area. This paper addresses the question...

In this paper, we study the aggregate and distributional implications of a smaller public sector in the euro area. By a smaller public sector, we mean a reduction in public debt and/or cuts in public spending, when such changes in fiscal policy are accommodated by adjustment in various taxes....

The debt sustainability is a challenging problem to some Eurozone countries, being a reflection of a high rate of unbalanced financial sector. The public debt crisis has already delayed the economic growth of certain countries and will cause unpleasant effects in the near future. Programmes of...