Fiscal Unions

We study cross-country insurance in a currency union with nominal price and wage rigidities. We provide two results that build the case for the creation of a fiscal union within a currency union. First, we show that, if financial markets are incomplete, the value of gaining access to any given level...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Farhi, Emmanuel, Werning, Iván
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72556