Lacking "Europeanisation" of National Business Cycles as a Risk for the Euro Area

Ten years after the start of EMU, the global financial market crisis is putting its viability to a test. In the absence of other mechanisms to smooth such a shock, a higher degree of economic policy co-ordination and closer co-operation between the euro area member countries and the ECB is urgently...

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Link(s) zu Dokument(en):WIFO Publikation
Veröffentlicht in:Austrian Economic Quarterly
1. Verfasser: Fritz Breuss
Format: article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Ten years after the start of EMU, the global financial market crisis is putting its viability to a test. In the absence of other mechanisms to smooth such a shock, a higher degree of economic policy co-ordination and closer co-operation between the euro area member countries and the ECB is urgently recommended. These steps could promote the necessary convergence towards a "European business cycle".