Is there an alternative way to avoid another eurozone crisis to the Five Presidents' Report?

Michael R. Wickens

No 11225, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The EU Commission's Five Presidents' Report proposes new rules for the eurozone covering fiscal policy, banking and financial markets designed to avert another eurozone crisis. This paper examines the causes of the current eurozone crisis and discusses whether the Report's proposals are likely to succeed. It is argued that the main causes of the crisis were EMU and the failure of financial markets to price risk correctly. It is claimed that the Report may not solve these problems. Having already lost their monetary policy instrument, the Report's fiscal proposals would remove their fiscal policy instrument too and deprive countries of the means of economic stabilisation. The proposals would also transfer to an undemocratic and unaccountable Commission important national competences.

Keywords: Eurozone crisis; Monetary policy; Fiscal policy; Financial markets; Pricing risk; Five presidents' report (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E61 E63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04
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