Searching for a New Balance for the Eurozone Governance in the Aftermath of the Coronavirus Crisis

José Caetano (), Paulo Ferreira and Andreia Dionísio ()
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Andreia Dionísio: Universidade de Évora

A chapter in New Challenges for the Eurozone Governance, 2021, pp 115-136 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus exposed the gaps in the European Monetary Union (EMU) governance, creating fears to repeat the sovereign debt crisis. In view of the magnitude of the crisis and the financial interdependence inside that union, strong policy coordination and central measures are crucial. The discussion on debt mutualisation continued to be based on clashing political positions. This chapter identifies the instability recorded in sovereign spreads at the beginning of the crisis and reviews the structural factors that caused it. We discuss the limited role of the ECB answer. So, the issue of Eurobonds is revisited, bringing new arguments since the EMU faces an exogenous shock. We sustain that the approval of the European Commission’s original Next Generation EU programme on the European Council in July 21, could anchor a new governance model for the EMU, based on the principle of subsidiarity and the refusal of moral hazard arguments.

Keywords: Eurozone governance; Monetary policy; Sovereign debts; Eurobonds; Moral hazard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62372-2_6

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