Staying together or breaking apart: Policy-makers' endogenous coalitions formation in the European Economic and Monetary Union

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 438-463

  Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni ^a,b   Engwerda, Jacob ^c   Plasmans, Joseph ^a,c   Van Aarle, Bas ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; EMU; Macroeconomic stabilization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRACTS; COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY;

BARGAINING WEIGHTS; COALITION FORMATIONS; EMU; MACROECONOMIC STABILIZATIONS; MONETARY UNION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 23044486859     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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