Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173001 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6725
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Fiscal federalism may not be a panacea in a monetary union if it does not address the non-cooperative behaviour between fiscal policymakers. To prove this, we assess the relative merits of a fiscal federalism scheme in a monetary union and intergovernmental fiscal cooperation without such a federal authority. Using a standard macroeconomic model commonly used for policy analysis we show that it is impossible to conclude that one solution is always preferable to the other. The benefits from an extra instrument and a policymaker with union-wide objectives may not compensate the adding of a non-cooperative player to the policy game. This result is sustained when an active monetary policy is introduced in the model or when shocks affect the functioning of the economy. The welfare ranking of these two options depends on the cross-border spillover effects, the objectives of policymakers and the variances of shocks.
Subjects: 
monetary union
fiscal federation
cooperation
policymix
JEL: 
E62
E63
F45
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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