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EU Fiscal Policy Coordination in Hard Times. Free Riders on the Storm

ISBN: 9780198829010

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Fecha de edición 14/04/2019
Número de Edición

1

Idioma

Formato

Páginas

240

Lugar de edición

Reino Unido

Colección

MONOGRAFÍA

Encuadernación

What happens to European Union (EU) fiscal policy coordination in hard times? Recent accounts of the EU have portrayed the union as plagued by an austerity regime and rampant moral hazard. Charlotte Rommerskirchen provides an alternative account of economic cooperation in Europe during the Great Recession and the European Debt Crisis. Drawing on Mancur Olson’s theory of collective action, this volume combines evidence from statistical analysis and extensive interviews with key players. This book reaches an unexpected conclusion regarding the state of collective action in times of crises: Free riding was not rife. Despite heated accusations, member states crisis policies matched their fiscal room for maneuver. The real collective action failure is instead diagnosed in the inability to sanction free riders at the EU level and empowering erratic bond markets to discipline governments.

1. Introduction
2. Fiscal Policy Coordination – A Primer
3. Theorizing Fiscal Policy Coordination
4. Policy Needs Politics
5. Beggar-Thy-Neighbors
6. Discretion Rather Than Rules
7. Market Discipline
8. Exit Stimulus
9. Free Riding Beyond Hard Times

Charlotte Rommerskirchen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in distinguished scholarly journals including the Socio-Economic Review, European Journal for Political Research, New Political Economy, and West European Politics.