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Regional Integration and Convergence and the Problems of Fiscal and Monetary Systems: Some Lessons for Eastern Europe

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BUDD L. (1997) Regional integration and convergence and the problems of fiscal and monetary systems: some lessons for Eastern Europe, Reg. Studies 31, 559-570. The Single European Market (SEM) and the possibility of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) present the constituent regions of Europe with a powerful challenge. What this paper argues is that activating the liberal assumptions of the SEM and the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht Treaty will not reduce regional inequality. In the absence of fiscal activism at a regional level, reliance on market forces will only exacerbate the existing core-periphery structure of Europe's regions. The paper attempts to extend its analysis of regional fiscal developments in Western Europe by suggesting some speculative lessons for the Eastern European economies. BUDD L. (1997) L'integration europeenne et la convergence et les problemes des systemes fiscaux et monetaires: des lecons a en tirer pour l'Europe de l'Est, Reg. Studies 31, 559-570. Le Marche unique et l'avancee de l'Union economique et monetaire lancent un defi fort aux regions d'Europe. Cet article cherch e affirmer que le declenchement des suppositions liberales du marche unique et les criteres fiscaux du Traite de Maastricht n'entrinera pas un retrecissement des ecarts regionaux. Faute de l'activisme fiscal sur le plan regional, la dependance vis-a-vis des forces du marche finira par aggraver la structure centre-peripherie des regions d'Europe. L'article cherche a approfondir l'analyse des developpements fiscaux regionaux en Europe occidentale en proposant des lecons que pourraient en tirer les economies de l'Europe de l'Est. BUDD L. (1997) Regionale Integration und Konvergenz, und das Problem finanz-und wa¨hrungspolitischer Systeme: gewisse Lehren fu¨r Osteuropa, Reg. Studies 31, 559-570. Der europa¨ische Binnenmarkt (SEM) and die Mo¨glichkeit einer Wirtschafts-und Wa¨hrungsunion (EMU) stellen fu¨r die einzelnen Regionen Europas eine grosse Herausforderung dar. Dieser Aufsatz stellt die Behauptung auf, dass die Aktivierung der liberalen Voraussetzungen der Wa¨hrungsunion und der finanziellen Kriterien des Maastrichter Vertrages die ausbleibende Gleichstellung der Regionen nicht beheben wird. Mangels finanzpolitischer Regsamkeit auf regionaler Ebene wird eine Abha¨ngigkeit von den Marktkra¨ften die gegenwa¨rtige Kern-und Randgebietstruktur der europa¨ischen Regionen nur verscha¨rfen. Dieser Aufsatz versucht, seine Analyse auf regionale finanzploitische Entwicklungen in Westeuropa auszudehnen, indem er gewisse spekulative Lehren fu¨r die osteuropa¨ischen Wirtschaften anbietet.

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  • Leslie Budd, 1997. "Regional Integration and Convergence and the Problems of Fiscal and Monetary Systems: Some Lessons for Eastern Europe," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 559-570.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:31:y:1997:i:6:p:559-570
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409750131695
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    1. Leslie Budd, 1998. "Territorial Competition and Globalisation: Scylla and Charybdis of European Cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 35(4), pages 663-685, April.
    2. M. Haynes & R. Husan, 2002. "'Somewhere Over the Rainbow': The Post-Soviet Transition, the Market and the Mythical Process of Convergence," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 381-398.
    3. Faragó László & Varró Krisztina, 2016. "Shifts in EU Cohesion Policy and Processes of Peripheralization: A View from Central Eastern Europe," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 23(1), pages 5-19, June.

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