Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45332 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 207
Publisher: 
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
Abstract: 
The current instruments in the EU to deal with debt and liquidity crises include among others the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM). Both are temporary in nature (3 years). In terms of an efficient future crisis management framework one has to ask what follows after the EFSF and the EFSM expire in 3 years time. In this vein, this briefing paper addresses the question of the political and economic medium- to long-term consequences of the recent decisions. Moreover, we assess what needs to be done using this window of opportunity of the coming 3 years. Which institutions need to be formalized, into what format, in order to achieve a coherent whole structure? This briefing paper presents and evaluates alternatives as regards the on-going debate on establishing permanent instruments to support the stability of the euro. Among them are the enhancement of the effectiveness of the Stability and Growth Pact combined with the introduction of a 'European semester' and a macroeconomic surveillance and crisis mechanism, fiscal limits hard-coded into each country's legislation in the form of automatic, binding and unchangeable rules and, as the preferred solution, the European Monetary Fund.
Subjects: 
EU governance
European Financial Stability Facility
European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism
European Monetary Fund
policy coordination
Stability and Growth Pact
JEL: 
E61
E62
F55
P48
ISBN: 
978-3-86788-236-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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