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What are the prerequisites for a euro-area fiscal capacity?

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  • Maria Demertzis
  • Guntram B. Wolff

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Executive Summary This is the background paper for the presentation given at the informal ECOFIN in Bratislava on 9 September 2016. A shortened version of this paper was circulated to the Ministers, click here to download it. A monetary union without fiscal union is generally considered to be incomplete. We consider three steps for increasing the centralisation of fiscal functions, and discuss the prerequisites for moving forward at each one....

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  • Maria Demertzis & Guntram B. Wolff, 2016. "What are the prerequisites for a euro-area fiscal capacity?," Bruegel Policy Contributions 16381, Bruegel.
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