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Making the euro viable: the Euro Treasury Plan

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  • Jörg Bibow

    (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and Levy Economics Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA)

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The euro crisis remains unresolved and the euro currency union incomplete and extraordinarily vulnerable. The euro regime's essential flaw and ultimate source of vulnerability is the decoupling of central bank and treasury institutions in the euro currency union. We propose a Euro Treasury scheme to properly fix the regime and resolve the euro crisis. The Euro Treasury Plan would establish a rudimentary fiscal union that is not a transfer union. The core idea is to create a Euro Treasury as a vehicle to pool future eurozone public investment spending and have it funded by proper eurozone treasury securities. The Euro Treasury could fulfil a number of additional purposes while operating mainly on the basis of a strict rule. The plan would also provide a much-needed fiscal boost to recovery and foster a more benign intra-area rebalancing.

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  • Jörg Bibow, 2016. "Making the euro viable: the Euro Treasury Plan," European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 13(1), pages 72-86, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:ejeepi:v:13:y:2016:i:1:p72-86
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    1. Giovanni Covi, 2020. "Euro area growth differentials: diverging and reinforcing factors in a Kaleckian SVAR approach," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 47(1), pages 147-180, February.
    2. Eckhard Hein & Judith Martschin, 2020. "The Eurozone in Crisis — A Kaleckian Macroeconomic Regime and Policy Perspective," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(4), pages 563-588, October.
    3. Cinthia De Souza, 2026. "Sovereign bondholders and the Eurozone core-periphery divide: from the debt crisis to the quantitative tightening," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 1-28, December.
    4. Szilárd Erhart, 2022. "Ready or not? Constructing the Monetary Union Readiness Index," Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, Central bank of Montenegro, vol. 11(1), pages 23-66.
    5. Sergio Rossi, 2019. "Rethinking the euro as a common currency for Europe: Keynes's plan revisited," Revista de Economia Critica, Universidad Pablo de Olavide y Asociacion de Economia Critica, vol. 27, pages 86-99.
    6. Jörg Bibow, 2019. "Zur US Dollar Hegemonie: Ein Blick zurück - und in die Zukunft," FMM Working Paper 48-2019, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute.

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    JEL classification:

    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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