Research Catalog

Title

Domestic budgets in a United Europe : fiscal governance from the end of Bretton Woods to EMU / Mark Hallerberg.

Author

Hallerberg, Mark.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Description

x, 245 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Under European Monetary Union, member states lose the ability to steer their economies by manipulating monetary policy. Domestic Budgets in a United Europe, which explains the content, evolution, and effectiveness of fiscal institutions, will be the definitive account of European budget reform in the late twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Fiscal policy > European Union countries
• Fiscal policy > Europe > Case studies
• Budget > Europe > Case studies
• Europe > Economic integration
• Budget > European Union countries
• Finance, Public > European Union countries
• Finance, Public > Europe > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : the political economy of fiscal policy in Europe -- 2. Forms of fiscal governance -- 3. European Union fiscal policy coordination and domestic budget making -- 4. The delegation form of fiscal governance -- 5. The commitment form of fiscal governance -- 6. Why minority governments are different : the mixed systems of fiscal governance in Sweden and Denmark -- 7. Italy : change in party system, change in fiscal governance -- 8. Party system instability and incomplete forms of fiscal governance -- 9. Conclusion : applications of the fiscal governance approach in Europe and beyond.

ISBN

0801442710 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004005010

OCLC

• ocm54536726
• SCSB-5081580

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries