Focusing on the 1992-93 crisis of the European Monetary System (Ems), I stress, in opposition with the conclusions reached by “escape clause” models, the role played by the availability of foreign reserves. In particular, I show the lack of credibility of the Bundesbank’s commitment to...

In this paper we analyze the issue of cooperation among national fiscal authorities in a monetary union within the framework of their strategic interactions with the common monetary authority. We find that: a) in the lack of cooperation with the central bank, cooperation among fiscal authorities...

The recent revision (March 2005) of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) has confirmed the 3% deficit/GDP ratio as the pillar of the excessive deficits procedure envisaged by the Maastricht Treaty for member countries of the EMU. Since the deficit/GDP ceiling is still in place, research on its...

Our interest here concerns liquidity supply as a distinctive feature of the bank-firm relationship. Any agent facing an opportunity or a commitment may find him/herself unexpectedly illiquid, and hence he/she may find it profitable to borrow quot;on callquot; if this costs less than missing the...

Tracking, monitoring and steering the evolution of public debt over time will be a major policy challenge for almost all governments in the advanced countries in the years to come, in particular for those belonging to the European Monetary Union. In this paper I study public debt dynamics in a...

In this paper the authors present a New Keynesian quantitative model with endogenous investment and stock-market sector that may shed further light on two unsettled issues: whether central banks should include some financial indicator in their policy rules, and which indicator may be expected to...

In spite of a richness of New Keynesian models that provide the microfoundations to money non-neutrality, a systematic New Keynesian monetary theory is not ripe. In this paper the authors wish to propose a unifying theoretical monetary framework for these models, based on sequential time,...