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N°Spécial De Revue/Special Issue Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science Année : 2017

When Keynes goes to Brussels : a new fiscal rule for the EMU : is it desirable ?

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The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) institutions are consistent with a New Consensus that emerged in the 1980s, limiting the role for macroeconomic policy to short term stabilizations by means of rules. I will argue that the policy inertia induced by the Consensus may have played a role in the disappointing performance of EMU economies even before the crisis. The crisis of the Consensus, and the debate on secular stagnation, proved that Keynesian and possibly persistent excesses of savings over investment may hamper growth. This has put fiscal policy back to the center of the scene, and given the General Theory, at eighty, a second youth. I will argue therefore that the EMU fiscal rule should be amended to allow semi-permanent negative government savings. I will finally argue that a modified Golden Rule may serve this objective, and allow EU-wide policy coordination. This seems the only reasonable reform with some chances of being adopted by the EU divided policy makers.
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Francesco Saraceno. When Keynes goes to Brussels : a new fiscal rule for the EMU : is it desirable ?. Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, L12, pp.26, 2017. ⟨hal-03389109⟩
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