Fiscal policy is a tool that is often used for demand management purposes, especially in economies where the monetary authority is targeting the exchange rate and is therefore constrained in responding to cyclical movements in output. For many years, Norway and Denmark have assigned the role of demand management to fiscal policy to facilitate the monetary policy objective of exchange rate targeting. The usefulness of fiscal policy in this role is currently heavily debated in the context of the introduction of the euro because, in adopting the single currency, countries have had to relinquish their own monetary policy frameworks and therefore the question has been posed whether fiscal policy should play a more active role in moderating cyclical imbalances in Europe
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