## Abstract This paper explores the interaction between the proposed monetary union for ECOWAS and structural reforms of fiscal policy. In a monetary union among symmetric countries members run a more distortionary fiscal policy and structural reform efforts fall. This can also follow in countries
Fiscal and monetary policy coordination in EMU
✍ Scribed by Jürgen von Hagen; Susanne Mundschenk
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-9307
- DOI
- 10.1002/ijfe.215
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