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12 - The Objectives for the ECB and the Macroeconomic Constitution Going Forward

from Part III - The ECB from a Central Bank of Stability to a Central Bank of Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2022

Klaus Tuori
Affiliation:
Université du Luxembourg
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The last chapter is devoted to the fundamental transformation of the European Macroeconomic Constitution and particularly its objectives during the last decade that has also changed the ECB from a central bank of stability to a central bank of crisis. The great promise of the EMU that the properly designed and constitutionally protected macroeconomic framework would guarantee economic stability and prosperity has failed. In particular, the sole focus on price stability objective and constraints for national economic policy failed to ensure economic, fiscal, or even financial stability. The ECB 2021 strategy review tried to reflect these changes. The chapter analyses, how the ECB could seek to readjust its role in the euro area economy by incorporating new objectives. The discussion starts by analysing how and why the role of price stability has changed, which is followed by assessments of how the broader stability objective have gained more practical and eventually also formal importance. Furthermore, the objectives of structural economic adjustment and increasingly environmental sustainability are discussed as the new candidates for the objectives of the European Macroeconomic Constitution and the ECB. As an Epilogue, the book concludes with a broader forward-looking perspective on the options available.

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The European Central Bank and the European Macroeconomic Constitution
From Ensuring Stability to Fighting Crises
, pp. 274 - 295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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