TY - SER AU - Barba,Aldo AU - Vivo,Giancarlo de TI - Flawed currency areas and viable currency areas : : external imbalances and public finance in the time of the euro SN - 0277-5921 KW - Política monetaria KW - Hacienda pública KW - Europa N1 - Bibliografía : páginas 95-96; Introduction, 73 ;; Territorial disparities, regional public finance inflows and current account deficits, 76 ;; The tiny EU Federal Budget, 84 ;; External imbalances and their settlement, 88 ;; An impossible task for a payment system, 90 ;; External constraints and austerity rules in a common currency area, 93 N2 - The main problem discussed in this paper is whether a balance of payments constraint exists within the euro area ER -