Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18702 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1338
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper builds on the discussion paper published by HM Treasury in 2003 alongside the UK Government's assessment of the case for EMU entry. The paper considers the potential for fiscal policy to play a greater role in stabilisation policy if the UK were inside EMU. The paper considers: the scope for strengthening the automatic stabilisers and the possible tradeoffs; how institutional changes could increase the effectiveness of discretionary fiscal policy; which fiscal instruments might be the most effective; and to what extent stabilisation might be promoted in other ways, such as through enhanced risk sharing by financial markets.
JEL: 
E63
E62
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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