Michael Carlberg

Policy Competition and Policy Cooperation in a Monetary Union

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro area. The policy makers are the union central bank, the German government, the French government and other governments. The policy targets are price stability in the union, full employment in Germany, full employment in France, etc. The policy instruments are union money supply, German government purchases, French government purchases, etc. As a rule, the spillovers of fiscal policy are negative. The policy makers follow either cold-turkey or gradualist strategies. The policy decisions are taken sequentially or simultaneously. Policy expectations are adaptive or rational. This book carefully discusses the case for central bank independence and fiscal cooperation.

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European monetary unification seems to be one of the most important events in international monetary affairs since the breakdown of Bretton Woods. It pos es a major challenge to central banks, governments, and labour unions. It opens up new fields of economic research that are both intriguing and fascinating. European Monetary Union amounts to a switch of regime. Surely the Mundell Fleming model of the open economy does no longer apply to Germany or France. The effects of shocks and policies on output and prices should have changed dramatically in size. Some of them should even work in the opposite direction now. The present book is part of a larger research project on monetary union, see Carlberg (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). Some parts of this project were presented at the World Congress of the International Economic Association in Lisbon. Other parts were presented at the Macro Study Group of the German Economic Association, at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association in Klagenfurt, at the Pass au Workshop on International Economics, at the Halle Workshop on Monetary Economics, and at the Research Seminar on Macroeconomics in Freiburg. Moreover, book reviews were published in the Economic Journal, Kyklos, the Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economics and Statistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-20914-0
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9783540209140
• ISBN-10: 354020914X
• Artikelnr.: 12637888

Autorenporträt

Michael Carlberg, Federal University of Hamburg, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

1. Subject and Approach.- 2. The Monetary Union of Two Countries: Basic Models.- 3. The Monetary Union of Two Countries: Intermediate Models.- One. The Monetary Union of Two Countries: Basic Models.- 1. Monetary Policy in the Union.- 2. Fiscal Competition between Germany and France.- 3. Fiscal Cooperation between Germany and France.- 4. Competition between the Union Central Bank, the German Government, and the French Government.- 5. Cooperation between the Union Central Bank, the German Government, and the French Government.- 6. Independent Central Bank, Fiscal Cooperation between Germany and France.- 7. A Synopsis of the Basic Models.- Two. The Monetary Union of Two Countries: Intermediate Models.- 1. Fiscal Competition: A General Model.- 2. The Union Countries Differ in Size.- 3. The Union Countries Differ in Behaviour.- 4. Simultaneous and Independent Decisions.- 5. Gradualist Policies.- 6. Alternative Targets of the Union Central Bank.- 7. The German Government Targets Overemployment.- 8. No Spillovers of Fiscal Policy.- 9. Positive Spillovers of Fiscal Policy.- Three. The Monetary Union of Two Countries: Advanced Models.- 1. Cold-Turkey Policies: Sequential Decisions.- 2. Cold-Turkey Policies: Simultaneous Decisions.- 3. Gradualist Policies: Sequential Decisions.- 4. Gradualist Policies: Simultaneous Decisions.- 5. Monetary, Fiscal and Wage Competition.- Four. The Monetary Union of n Countries.- 1. The Monetary Union of Three Countries.- 2. The Monetary Union of Four Countries.- Five. Rational Policy Expectations.- 1. Rational Policy Expectations in Germany and France.- 2. Adaptive Policy Expectations in Germany and France.- 3. Adaptive Policy Expectations in Germany, Rational Policy Expectations in France.- Conclusion.- Result.- 1. Monetary Policy in the Union.- 2. Fiscal Competition between Germany and France.- 3. Fiscal Cooperation between Germany and France.- 4. Competition between the Union Central Bank, the German Government, and the French Government.- 5. Cooperation between the Union Central Bank, the German Government, and the French Government.- 6. Independent Central Bank, Fiscal Cooperation between Germany and France.- Symbols.- A Brief Survey of the Literature.- The Current Research Project.- References.