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Which lender of last resort for the eurosystem?

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The paper want to demonstrate how to organise central banking in a monetary union of independent nations, with emphasis on the role of the central bank as lender of last resort. Section I presents the first proposal for a decentralised central banking system in a monetary union by the Swedish economist Erik Lindahl in 1930, as well as that in 1989 for the Eurosystem, the centrepiece of European Monetary Union (EMU), by Carlo Ciampi, then President of the Banca d’Italia. Both proposals emphasised the necessity of a strong and powerful central monetary authority. Section II demonstrates that EMU lacks a central monetary institution, because the European Central Bank (ECB) is neither a bank of issue nor can it act as a lender of last resort. Section III discusses how to overcome this fundamental deficiency of the Eurosystem, arguing that the missing central fiscal authority in EMU is as much an Achilles heel as the “narrow” ECB.

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  • Steiger, Otto, 2004. "Which lender of last resort for the eurosystem?," ZEI Working Papers B 23-2004, University of Bonn, ZEI - Center for European Integration Studies.
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    1. Steiger, Otto, 2002. "Der Staat als 'Lender of Last Resort' - oder: Die Achillesferse des Eurosystems," ZEI Working Papers B 22-2002, University of Bonn, ZEI - Center for European Integration Studies.
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    1. Itai Agur, 2009. "What Institutional Structure for the Lender of Last Resort?," DNB Working Papers 200, Netherlands Central Bank, Research Department.

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    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy

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