Why EMU is irrelevant for the German economy
- No one seems to be neutral about the effects of EMU on the German economy. Roughly speaking, there are two camps: those who see the euro as the advent of a newly open, large, and efficient regime which will lead to improvements in European and in particular in German competitiveness; those who see the euro as a weakening of the German commitment to price stability. From a broader macroeconomic perspective, however, it is clear that EMU is unlikely to cause directly any meaningful change either for the better in Standort Deutschland or for the worse in the German price stability. There is ample evidence that changes in monetary regimes (so long as non leaving hyperinflation) induce little changes in real economic structures such as labor or financial markets. Regional asymmetries of the sorts in the EU do not tend to translate into monetary differences. Most importantly, there is no good reason to believe that the ECB will behave any differently than the Bundesbank.
| Author: | Adam Posen |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-9496 |
| Parent Title (German): | Institut für Kapitalmarktforschung (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; Nr. [19]98,11 |
| Series (Serial Number): | CFS working paper series (1998, 11) |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 1998 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1998 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2005/06/13 |
| Tag: | EMU; Germany; central bank; monetary policy |
| GND Keyword: | Europäische Union; Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion; Deutschland; Standortfaktor; Makroökonomie |
| Issue: | Juni 1998 |
| Page Number: | 23 |
| Last Page: | 23 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 190713313 |
| Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
