One Country, One Vote?
One Country, One Vote? Labor Market Structure and Voting Rights in the ECB
- 세종대학교 경제통합연구소
- Journal of Economic Integration
- 제20권 제4호
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2005.12672 - 687 (16 pages)
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The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a voting scheme based purely on economic size can be beneficial. Preliminary evidence on unemployment and voting rights in the ECB council seems broadly in line with this idea. We also point to possible policy implications for EMU enlargement and ECB restructuring.
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. The Basic Model
Ⅲ. Inflation and Real Wages in Member Countries
Ⅳ. Voting Power, Inflation, and the Real Sector
Ⅴ. Some Preliminary Evidence and Discussion
Ⅵ. Concluding Remarks
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