How much fiscal discipline in a monetary union?

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 39, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 348-360

  De Grauwe, Paul ^a   Ji, Yuemei ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austerity; EMS; Eurozone; Fiscal policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897423853     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2013.08.016     Document Type: Article

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