Macroeconomic co-ordination as an economic policy concept – opportunities and obstacles in the EMU

Eckhard Hein and Achim Truger

Macroeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper traces the euro zone’s inadequate macroeconomic performance in recent years back to the predominance of a restrictive macroeconomic policy mix based on a ‘new monetarist’ approach to economic policy. An approach based on a (post-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and employment-oriented alternative to this restrictive policy mix. Contrary to the strict assignment of macroeconomic goals to the macroeconomic policy actors and their instruments in the ‘new monetarist’ approach, the alternative requires the co-ordination of monetary, fiscal and wage policies in order to achieve growth, high employment and price stability. The paper examines the opportunities for and the obstacles to macroeconomic co-ordination given by the institutional framework of the European Monetary Union.

Keywords: Macroeconomic policy co-ordination; European Monetary Union; monetary policy; fiscal policy; wages policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E61 E63 E64 E65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2004-12-10
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