Artikel

Monetary financing in the euro area: A free lunch?

Two recent proposals for overcoming the euro area crisis make the case for monetary financing of the public sector. Watt proposes that the ECB finances public investment directly, while Pâris and Wyplosz contend that public debt may be effectively restructured by burying parts of it in the balance sheet of the Eurosystem. Both proposals place the ECB at the centre of matters generally considered to be fiscal in order to circumvent existing fiscal and political constraints. This paper argues that both proposals fudge the line between monetary and fiscal policy, thereby ignoring valid reasons for separating these two macroeconomic policy areas.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Intereconomics ; ISSN: 1613-964X ; Volume: 50 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 214-220 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Geldpolitik
Finanzpolitik
Öffentliche Investition
Bankrechnungslegung
Zentralbank
Eurozone

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Tober, Silke
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Springer
(where)
Heidelberg
(when)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1007/s10272-015-0545-z
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  • Tober, Silke
  • Springer

Time of origin

  • 2015

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