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3 - Theoretical Foundations and Practical Interests behind European Institutions

from Part I - The Historical and Institutional Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2020

Nicola Acocella
Affiliation:
Sapienza Università di Roma
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In Chapter 3 we sketch the roots of the EMU institutions in terms of the theories and the interests shaping them. This makes it easier to understand in Part II the imbalances that arose in the Union, largely descending from the free trade orientation of its institutions as well as from the different interests of countries and sections of the population. The monetarist and New Classical Macroeconomics theories, popular at the time when the institutions of the EMU were devised, played an important role for the choice of the institutional design. However, the existing theories were only partly implemented (e.g., the requirements of the Optimal Currency Theory were not satisfied) and later revisions of the accepted theories – asking for a different orientation of the initial institutions and current policies – have been ignored. Other factors, of the nature of vested interests, at the roots of the different growth models pursued by the various countries, added to existing theories and can explain together with them both the institutional design and the policies implemented by the Union.

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The European Monetary Union
Europe at the Crossroads
, pp. 68 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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