European Monetary Union reform preferences of French and German parliamentarians

Sebastian Blesse, Pierre Boyer, Friedrich Heinemann, Eckhard Janeba and Anasuya Raj

No 17-059, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: We analyze data from an author-conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality, ideology, and personal characteristics. For European Monetary Union policies like Eurobonds, the Fiscal Compact and the European Central Bank asset purchase program we find a robust difference between parliamentarians of both countries if they belong to the same party family and controlling for individual characteristics. Based on our estimates, however, we predict agreement between German left-wingers and French conservatives even for ideological differences that are smaller than the current difference between the left and the right European party families. Our findings suggest that deeply-rooted national differences do not impose a prohibitive obstacle to a German-French parliamentary consensus on European Monetary Union policies.

Keywords: Comparative politics; European Monetary Union reforms; elite survey; members of national; parliament; policy preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 E62 F15 H60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019, Revised 2019
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