Fiscal restrictions and monetary union: Rationales, repercussions, reforms

Empirica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-23

  Eichengreen, Barry ^a,b   Von Hagen, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMU; Excessive Deficit Procedure; Maastricht Treaty

Indexed keywords

EMU; EUROPEAN UNION; FISCAL PRECONDITIONS; MAASTRICHT TREATY; MONETARY POLICY;

EUROPE, (WEST);

EID: 0030445007     PISSN: 03408744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00925006     Document Type: Article

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