Is There an Alternative to the Fiscal Compact for Conducting Fiscal Policy in the Euro Area?

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  • Andrew Hughes Hallet
  • Svend E. Hougaard Jensen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v16i1.27535

Resumé

This paper o ers a critical assessment of the scal set-up in the Euro Area and considers a new framework for achieving scal discipline. e key idea is an inter-temporal assignment where national scal policies focus on long-term objectives and a common monetary policy on short-term objectives. e result is a self-stabilising set-up where the enforcement problem has largely been resolved. For practical implementation purposes, scal policy is stated in terms of a target for the public debt-to-GDP ratio. We argue that the debt target should be set in a forward-looking fashion to account for implicit liabilities, such as the discounted budgetary impact of changing demographics in addition to conventional debt measures. 

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2013-01-11

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Hallet, A. H., & Hougaard Jensen, S. E. (2013). Is There an Alternative to the Fiscal Compact for Conducting Fiscal Policy in the Euro Area?. Politik, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v16i1.27535