Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of conference participants
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Banking competition and European integration
- Discussion
- 3 Banking, financial intermediation and corporate finance
- Discussion
- 4 How (not) to integrate the European capital markets
- Discussion
- 5 European financial regulation: a framework for policy analysis
- Discussion
- 6 Corporate mergers in international economic integration
- Discussion
- 7 Capital flight and tax competition: are there viable solutions to both problems?
- Discussion
- 8 Reflections on the fiscal implications of a common currency
- Discussion
- 9 Currency competition and the transition to monetary union: does competition between currencies lead to price level and exchange-rate stability?
- 10 Currency competition and the transition to monetary union: currency competition and the evolution of multi-currency regions
- Discussion of chapters 9 and 10
- 11 Problems of European monetary integration
- Discussion
- Index
8 - Reflections on the fiscal implications of a common currency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of conference participants
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Banking competition and European integration
- Discussion
- 3 Banking, financial intermediation and corporate finance
- Discussion
- 4 How (not) to integrate the European capital markets
- Discussion
- 5 European financial regulation: a framework for policy analysis
- Discussion
- 6 Corporate mergers in international economic integration
- Discussion
- 7 Capital flight and tax competition: are there viable solutions to both problems?
- Discussion
- 8 Reflections on the fiscal implications of a common currency
- Discussion
- 9 Currency competition and the transition to monetary union: does competition between currencies lead to price level and exchange-rate stability?
- 10 Currency competition and the transition to monetary union: currency competition and the evolution of multi-currency regions
- Discussion of chapters 9 and 10
- 11 Problems of European monetary integration
- Discussion
- Index
Summary
Introduction: sense and nonsense in the Delors Report
The much increased likelihood of significant advances in European monetary integrations – and even of European monetary union in the mediumterm future – has not surprisingly shifted the spotlight onto the need for coordination of fiscal policies as a complement to monetary unification. The Delors Report (1989) made much of the fiscal implications of the movement towards a greater degree of rigidity of nominal exchange rates among participants in the exchange rate arrangements of the European Monetary System (EMS).
A monetary union would require a single monetary policy and responsibility for the formulation of this policy would consequently have to be vested in one decision-making body. In the economic field a wide range of decisions would remain the preserve of national and regional authorities. However, given their potential impact on the overall domestic and external economic situation of the Community and their implications for the conduct of a common monetary policy, such decisions would have to be placed within an agreed macro-economic framework and be subject to binding procedures and rules. This would permit the determination of an overall policy stance for the Community as a whole, avoid unsustainable differences between individual member countries in public sector borrowing requirements and place binding constraints on the size and the financing of budget deficits.
(Delors Report, 1989, p. 18)No deficits, please
There are frequent further references in the Delors Report to the need to control national public sector deficits and in a number of places the Report becomes rather specific about the constraints to be imposed on national budgetary policy.
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- European Financial Integration , pp. 221 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991
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