Economic Policy 68 (Paperback)

Editors’ introduction

1.       Fiscal policy, pricing frictions and monetary accommodation (Fabio Canova and Evi Pappa)

2.       Assessing the fiscal stance in the European Union and the United States, 1970–2011 (Vito Polito and Michael Wickens)

3.       What should fiscal councils do? (Lars Calmfors and Simon Wren-Lewis)

4.       Short-time work benefits revisited: some lessons from the Great Recession (Tito Boeri and Herbert Bruecker)