
The European Central Bank and the European Macroeconomic Constitution
From Ensuring Stability to Fighting Crises
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The European Central Bank and the European Macroeconomic Constitution
From Ensuring Stability to Fighting Crises
About this book
The book is about money, central banking and constitutions. It explains how the European Central Bank was established to ensure stability and prosperity for the euro area. The ECB was guided and controlled by a coherent European Macroeconomic Constitution. However, this model has failed during recurring crises, and the ECB has started to act as the euro area fire brigade. Consequently, it is pushing the boundaries of monetary policy, and with that challenging the accountability mechanisms and fundamentally also the democratic legitimacy of the EMU. The book sheds light on this complex economic-constitutional setting with a view on the future. The imbalance between various new operations and a single price stability objective is difficult to remedy. New objectives of financial stability, economic adjustment and environmental sustainability can cause fundamental ruptures between the ECB's formal role and its actions, and they also dangerously overburden monetary policy moving forward with substantial risks.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editors' Preface
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: A Supranational Central Bank as a Subject
- Part I The ECB as the Central Bank of the European Macroeconomic Constitution
- Part II Crises, ECB Measures and the Macroeconomic Constitution
- Part III The ECB from a Central Bank of Stability to a Central Bank of Crisis
- Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?
- Bibliography
- Index