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7 - Asymmetries, Imbalances, Signals, and Incentives to Change

from Part II - Institutions and Policies in Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2020

Nicola Acocella
Affiliation:
Sapienza Università di Roma
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Chapter 7 focuses on the consequences of the EMU institutional set up. It shows that the signals and information about the imbalances that can arise do not flow evenly and effectively across states, contrary to what happens within them, and are often noisy or carry wrong messages to markets and governments. Thus, they do not offer sufficient incentives for change in the right direction. This is in contrast with both the orientation of the founding fathers of the Union and the literature before the creation of the EMU, which practically delegated most of the burden for integration, alignment, reforms, etc. to private institutions (markets). The common currency and the common monetary policy should be conceived as a tie to the action of private and public agents, not only because of the constraint imposed by the single currency (the external tie), but also for the conservative orientation of the ECB. These should have imposed a strong network of ties in particular on the conduct of the agents in the countries with higher inefficiencies, by indicating – almost naturally – the route to follow, compelling them to change their conduct and enacting the needed reforms.

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The European Monetary Union
Europe at the Crossroads
, pp. 208 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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