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Les implications budgétaires de l'union monétaire

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  • Charles Wyplosz
  • Jean Pisani- Ferry

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[fre] L'unification économique et monétaire de l'Europe a des implications majeures en matière de politique budgétaire. En effet, l'union monétaire étant caractérisée par l'existence d'un taux d'intérêt réel uniforme, les conséquences des politiques budgétaires transiteront, non plus par des ajustements de changes, mais par des variations des niveaux absolus de prix ; l'ensemble des pays membres en supportera les effets sur les taux d'intérêt réels. Dans la mesure où, dès lors qu'il existe des rigidités de prix, il faudra compenser la perte de l'instrument taux de change, il sera nécessaire de coordonner les politiques budgétaires si l'on veut éviter l'instabilité et les actions non coopératives. Mais contrairement aux recommandations du rapport Delors, ceci n'implique pas en général que l'on doive renforcer la « discipline budgétaire » en instaurant des plafonds sur les déficits publics des États membres. Ces aspects, alliés aux risques de concurrence fiscale entre pays et à la généralisation des externalités qui devraient aller de pair avec l'intégration croissante des marchés, plaident en faveur d'une augmentation substantielle du budget communautaire. [eng] The European economic and monetary union has one major implication on fiscal policy. Indeed the monetary union being caracterized by uniform real interest rates, fiscal policies will not affect anymore exchange rates, but the prices levels ; the EEC countries will have to bear the consequences on real interest rates. Consequently, since prices rigidities do exist, it will be necessary to compensate the loss of exchange rate instrument by coordinating fiscal policies to avoid instability and non cooperative actions. But, contrary to the recommandation of Mr Delor's report, the paper shows that this dees not imply the reinforcing of fiscal discipline by creating an upper limit to the public deficits of member countries. Theses aspects, together with the risks of fiscal competitivity among countries and whith the generalisation of externalities which should accompany the increasing market integration, are in favour of a substantial increase of the EEC budget.

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  • Charles Wyplosz & Jean Pisani- Ferry, 1990. "Les implications budgétaires de l'union monétaire," Revue de l'OFCE, Programme National Persée, vol. 33(1), pages 155-173.
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    DOI: 10.3406/ofce.1990.1678
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