Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144375
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 163
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
Alexandre Lamfalussy has been highly influential in the process of European monetary and financial unification. In this paper we will analyse the work of the "Young Lamfalussy" (from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s). Lamfalussy started his career as an academic, focusing on growth theory and Belgian and European growth patterns in the post-war period. His work is still considered to be influential in the recent literature on Europe's post-war economic growth. It fits nicely into the Keynesian tradition: Lamfalussy's analytical frameworks were often inspired by Keynesian models, in his analysis he emphasised vicious and virtuous circles in the economy and, in his policy conclusions, he was a clear partisan of more planning. However, certain elements, typical also of Lamfalussy's later work, were already present, not least a strong European conviction and an eclectic approach towards economics, blending economic theory and empirical data beautifully to elucidate crucial policy problems
Subjects: 
Lamfalussy
European growth patterns
Keynesian economics
Belgium
macroeconomic policy-making
JEL: 
B22
E60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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