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The Fiscal Framework in a Currency Union
Andrew J. Hughes Hallett
Svend E. Hougaard Jensen
其他書名
Lessons from a Comparison Between the Euro Area and the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
出版
SSRN
, 2016
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=773hzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This paper draws out lessons from the euro area (EA) that are transferable to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and other Caribbean economies with fixed exchange rates. Based on observations from both the EA and the ECCU, we present a new policy framework which is capable of imposing fiscal discipline, with the aim of avoiding the risk of unsustainable fiscal policies reappearing and of preventing monetary policy from being undermined by undisciplined national governments. In the ECCU case, we find that fiscal deficits are more a result of financial and trade imbalances than fiscal indiscipline per se. Consequently, constraints on overall debt, public and private, rather than direct limits on endogenous public deficits, appear to be the appropriate response.
