The Political Economy Under Monetary Union: Has the Euro Made a Difference? Export

@article{citeulike:5939825, abstract = {Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their policy autonomy in several areas, such as monetary policy and fiscal policy. The paper shows that EMU has helped reduce the impact of political shocks on the domestic economy of member states but magnified the transmission of political shocks within the euro area. Equally importantly, economies with a weaker track record in terms of economic and institutional quality exhibited a significantly higher sensitivity to domestic political shocks before EMU, but not thereafter. While this may entail that EMU has brought benefits to countries with a weaker economic and institutional stability by insulating them from adverse political developments at home, a potential drawback is that it may provide weaker market discipline for domestic political stability.}, author = {Fratzscher, Marcel and Stracca, Livio}, citeulike-article-id = {5939825}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=1291164}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1291164_code485639.pdf?abstractid=1291164&mirid=1}, day = {20}, journal = {Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series}, keywords = {econ, emu, eu, f3, fiscalpol, g1, pol, sovereignty, transm}, month = {November}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 16:37:17}, priority = {2}, publisher = {SSRN}, title = {The Political Economy Under Monetary Union: Has the Euro Made a Difference?}, url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=1291164}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5939825 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5939825 N2 - Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their policy autonomy in several areas, such as monetary policy and fiscal policy. The paper shows that EMU has helped reduce the impact of political shocks on the domestic economy of member states but magnified the transmission of political shocks within the euro area. Equally importantly, economies with a weaker track record in terms of economic and institutional quality exhibited a significantly higher sensitivity to domestic political shocks before EMU, but not thereafter. While this may entail that EMU has brought benefits to countries with a weaker economic and institutional stability by insulating them from adverse political developments at home, a potential drawback is that it may provide weaker market discipline for domestic political stability. JF - Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series TI - The Political Economy Under Monetary Union: Has the Euro Made a Difference? PB - SSRN KW - econ KW - emu KW - eu KW - f3 KW - fiscalpol KW - g1 KW - pol KW - sovereignty KW - transm AU - Fratzscher, Marcel AU - Stracca, Livio PY - 2008/November/20/ UR - http://ssrn.com/abstract=1291164 ER -