With the abolition of exchange rates the role of wage formation in the European Monetary Union changes fundamentally and national economic policy in particular fiscal policy faces new restrictions. These are analysed in the first two chapters. A major impact is expected for wage formation. To...

Macroeconomically oriented wage policies had largely gone out of fashion. Instead, the prevailing view was that wage setting is just another market process comparable to market processes in goods markets. However, these theoretical approaches ignore some fundamental aspects of wage setting. For...

Mit der hartnäckigen Tendenz zur Deflation verliert die Geldpolitik, die den Euroraum bislang entscheidend stabilisiert hat, an Wirksamkeit. Sie bedarf dringend der Flankierung durch die Finanzpolitik, die mittels höherer Investitionen die Wirtschaft im Euroraum stimuliert und so die...