Granice globalizacji: przypadek strefy euro
Boundaries of Globalization: The Case of the Euro Zone

Summary/Abstract: Intensification of globalization is achieved at the cost of limiting the scope of autonomy of economic policy at the national level. This produces a trade-off between the benefits derived from globalization and the costs caused by resigning from possibility to conduct autonomous policy to keep the economy on an equilibrium growth path. The costs of limited autonomy of domestic economic policy grow during a time of crisis. The possibility to reduce these costs depends on international political cooperation that would enable to create mechanisms of income distribution towards countries particularly hit by a crisis. The euro zone crisis illustrated this relationship in a spectacular way. Deficiency of political cooperation made it impossible to create an effective mechanism that would enable financial assistance to some euro-zone countries most hit by the crisis, which in effect have suffered considerable costs of their earlier resignation from possibility to conduct autonomous stabilization policy.

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