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  • 3 - Theoretical Foundations and Practical Interests behind European Institutions

  • from Part I - The Historical and Institutional Background
  • Nicola Acocella, Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Book:
    The European Monetary Union
    Published online:
    19 August 2020
    Print publication:
    27 August 2020, pp 68-102

  • Summary

    In Chapter 3 we sketch the roots of the EMU institutions in terms of the theories and the interests shaping them. This makes it easier to understand in Part II the imbalances that arose in the Union, largely descending from the free trade orientation of its institutions as well as from the different interests of countries and sections of the population. The monetarist and New Classical Macroeconomics theories, popular at the time when the institutions of the EMU were devised, played an important role for the choice of the institutional design. However, the existing theories were only partly implemented (e.g., the requirements of the Optimal Currency Theory were not satisfied) and later revisions of the accepted theories – asking for a different orientation of the initial institutions and current policies – have been ignored. Other factors, of the nature of vested interests, at the roots of the different growth models pursued by the various countries, added to existing theories and can explain together with them both the institutional design and the policies implemented by the Union.