Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policies and Labour Markets

Roel Beetsma is a Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Amsterdam and a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. Carlo Favero is Professor of Economics at the Universita Bocconi, Milan. Alessandro Missale is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Universita degli studi di Milano-Bicocca. Anton Muscatelli is the Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow. Piergiovanna Natale is Professor of Economics at the Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Patrizio Tirelli is Professor of Economics at the Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editors' introduction; Part I. Monetary Policy: 1. The European Central Bank: a view from across the ocean Stephen G. Cecchetti; 2. Which measure of inflation should the ECB target? C. A. Favero; 3. An evaluation of alternative targeting rules for the ECB Pierpaolo Benigno and J. David López-Salido; 4. Inflation modelling in the euro area Fabio C. Bagliano, Roberto Golinelli and Claudio Morana; Part II. Fiscal Policies: 5. The interaction between monetary and fiscal policies in a monetary union: a review of recent literature Roel Beetsma and Xavier Debrun; 6. Independent or coordinated? Monetary and fiscal policy in EMU Luca Lambertini and Riccardo Rovelli; 7. Interaction of fiscal policies in the euro area: how much pressure on the ECB? Luca Onorante; 8. The macroeconomic impact of different speeds of debt stabilisation in EMU Campbell Leith and Simon Wren-Lewis; 9. Fiscal shocks and policy regimes in some OECD countries Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Serena Lamartina; 10. Monetary and fiscal policy interactions over the cycle: some empirical evidence V. Anton Muscatelli, Patrizio Tirelli and Carmine Trecroci; Part III. Labour Markets: 11. Monetary institutions, monetary union and unionised labour markets: some recent developments Alex Cukierman; 12. Inflationary performance in a monetary union with large wage setters Lilia Cavallari; 13. On the enlargement of currency unions: incentives to join and incentives to reform Andrew Hughes Hallett and Svend E. Hougaard Jensen; Index.