Dollars, Euros, and Debt

1. Introduction
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2. The Crisis and the Calls for Policy Responses
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3. Central Banks as Lenders of Last Resort
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4. The Pressures on Germany to Help Save the Euro
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5. The Fiscal Situation before the Crisis
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6. The EMU Rules and Goodhart’s Law
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7. On Public Debts, Fiscal Deficits, and the Maastricht Rules
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8. Fiscal Policy During the Recent Crisis
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9. Fiscal Policy and the Fiction of Fungible Labor
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10. The EMU and the USA: What Are the Differences?
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11. Trade Balances within Monetary Unions
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12. On Central Banks’ Payment Systems within Unions
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13. Strategies to Get Out of the Fiscal Crisis
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14. Is There a Fundamental Law of Public Expenditure Growth?
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15. Concluding Remarks
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