Lecture

Date

Topic

References

1

20/09/2017

Introduction. Optimum Currency Areas, main fiscal variables and trends.

6, 24, 25, 26

2

27/09/2017

Fiscal and monetary interactions: unpleasant arithmetic

11, 30, 33

3

04/10/2017

Fiscal and monetary interactions; the fiscal theory of the price level.

11, 30, 33

4

11/10/2017

Sustainability of public finances.

1

5

18/10/2017

Expansionary fiscal consolidations.

2, 9, 21

6

25/10/2017

Quality of public finances.

3, 5

7

08/11/2017

Discretionary fiscal policy and automatic stabilisers.

10, 15, 18

8

15/11/2017

Long-term determinants of fiscal policy.

14, 16

9

22/11/2017

Fiscal policy and growth.

14, 16

10

29/11/2017

EU fiscal framework.

27

11

06/12/2017

Implementing the fiscal framework: the preventive and the corrective arm.

27, case studies

12

13/12/2017

Fiscal policy and financial markets.

4, 7, 8, 17, 32