Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments /

This paper examines the interest spending and taxation channels through which EMU could affect the public finances. It provides a framework for examining different views on a further narrowing of interest rate differentials. A model of Blanchard and Fischer is amended to analyze the two channels, an...

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Main Author: Mongelli, Francesco
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/093
Online Access:Full text available on IMF