This paper extends the Mundell-Fleming model to a monetary union between two countries that are different with regard to the determinants of aggregate demand, demand for money, foreign trade, price and wage adjustment. Depending on these national disparities in structural parameters, a fiscal...

We empirically assess whether a usually expected negative response of private consumption and private investment to a fiscal consolidation is reversed. We focus on a large sample of 174 countries between 1970 and 2018. We also employ three alternative measures of the Cyclically Adjusted Primary...

This study applies Taylor's (2000) proposed fiscal rule to EU-15 countries. We show that such a simple, flexible and transparent fiscal rule, if applied to individual EMU countries, could improve the enforceability of the Stability and Growth Pact. This rule is used to compute the structural...