Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Structural Reforms

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

Chapter E in 50 Years of EU Economic Dynamics, 2007, pp 75-108 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other hand. As a first step, we assess the effect of European Monetary Union (EMU) on structural reform and investigate this question by an examination of the relationship between fixed exchange rates and reform in two wider samples of countries. We also stress that loose monetary conditions, which prevailed until some months ago, can also manifest themselves in asset price inflation, notably in the housing market. When these bubbles burst (e.g., when housing prices stop rising) this often leads to a prolonged period of economic instability and weakness rather than consumer price inflation.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Monetary Policy; House Price; Euro Area; Monetary Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74055-1_6

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