Objective
RASTANEWS intends to enhance knowledge base, at both theoretical and an applied level, on many aspects of the future of macro-economic and monetary integration in Europe thus paving the way to a revised governance of the EMU, and the EU as a whole, in the wake of the debt crisis. We see three key issues about the working of the EU macro-economy that deserve deeper investigation. The first is the issue of incomplete and informationally inefficient financial markets, the Achille’s heel of the consensus DSGE models. The second, related issue, is the heterogeneity in expectations, which should play a fundamental role in explaining the behaviour of asset prices. The third issue is the need to overcome the traditional dichotomy between Keynesian (short run) and neoclassical (long run) policy prescriptions. Taking these issues seriously has important implications for the conduct of EU monetary and fiscal policies and for EU governance system. In addition, to facilitate the timely identification of macro risks, we propose a new system of early warning indicators, to be implemented within the EMU surveillance mechanism. This proposal is consistent with our theoretical framework and is based on an empirical macro-finance approach.
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Call for proposal
FP7-SSH-2012-2
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
20126 MILANO
Italy
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Participants (11)
75341 Paris
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20121 Milano
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69117 Heidelberg
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3000 Leuven
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20123 Milano
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00 950 WARSZAWA
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60121 Ancona
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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E1 4NS London
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7622 Pecs
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1012WX Amsterdam
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