Comment on ‘Fiscal Policy, Intercountry Adjustment and the Real Exchange Rate within Europe (C. Allsopp and D. Vines, Oxford University)

Kollmann, Robert (2010): Comment on ‘Fiscal Policy, Intercountry Adjustment and the Real Exchange Rate within Europe (C. Allsopp and D. Vines, Oxford University). Published in: ‘The Euro—The First Decade’, Cambridge University Press, 2010 (Marco Buti, Servaas Deroose, Vítor Gaspar, and João Nogueira Martins, editors), ISBN 978-9-279-09842-0 (2012): pp. 552-556.

Abstract

This paper discusses the article ‘Fiscal Policy, Intercountry Adjustment and the Real Exchange Rate within Europe’ (Christopher Allsopp and David Vines), in the conference volume ‘The Euro—The First Decade’, Cambridge University Press, 2010

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: fiscal policy, intercountry adjustment, real exchange rate within Europe
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit; F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance; F - International Economics > F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance; F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization

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