Real Wage Rigidities, Fiscal Policy, and the Stability of EMU in the Transition Phase /

EMU started with eleven member countries as scheduled on January 1, 1999. The paper shows that the primacy of politics over economics in this decision could have serious consequences concerning the stability of EMU in the transition phase. Speculative attacks against currencies which are in economic...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Thode, Eric
مؤلفون آخرون: Berthold, Norbert, Fehn, Rainer
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/083
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF