TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Herzog, Bodo A1 - Choi, Minjae T1 - Policy rules in the Economic and Monetary Union JF - Intereconomics : review of European economic policy N2 - This paper studies whether a monetary union can be managed solely by a rule based approach. The Five Presidents’ Report of the European Union rejects this idea. It suggests a centralisation of powers. We analyse the philosophy of policy rules from the vantage point of the German economic school of thought. There is evidence that a monetary union consisting of sovereign states is well organised by rules, together with the principle of subsidiarity. The root cause of the euro crisis is rather the weak enforcement of rules, compounded by structural problems. Therefore, we suggest a genuine rule-based paradigm for a stable future of the Economic and Monetary Union. Y1 - 2017 SN - 0020-5346 SS - 0020-5346 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0643-1 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0643-1 VL - 52 IS - 1 SP - 51 EP - 56 S1 - 6 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg ER -