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1. Macro-Economic and Financial Policies for Sustainability and Resilience

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The focus of this contribution is on macroeconomic and financial policies. It relies on fiscal, monetary and financial stability policies, which aim to develop sustainable and resilient market economies. This contribution relies on our macroeconomic model, which accounts for the financial sector, and a proper role for governments and thereby fiscal policy. It also accounts for distributional effects. The macroeconomic model upon which we rely to account for the relevant macroeconomic policies, enables our contribution to deal properly with fiscal, monetary and financial stability policies, and also distributional aspects. Another proposal, and most important, is that these policies should be properly coordinated to achieve sustainable and resilient economies. Our contribution begins with a relevant introduction, and proceeds to highlight our theoretical model. The economic policies of our model are then discussed, along with the next section that deals with the coordination of these policies. Our final section summarizes and concludes.

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Titel: Macro-Economic and Financial Policies for Sustainability and Resilience
verfasst von: Philip Arestis
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Economic Policies for Sustainability and Resilience
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-84287-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-84288-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84288-8_1

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