The Czechs could at a pinch turn to quantitative easing, but elsewhere the macroeconomic policy locker looks bare.
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"Chancellor Merkel's coalition government has made an important contribution to the economic upswing by introducing investment programmes for energy-saving technologies, and measures to encourage small business investment, " said Gustav Horn, director of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
In other words, on the biggest macroeconomic policy question of the day Britain is not part of Europe, it is looking on from outside.
Thus the more the economy needs looser macroeconomic policy, the more scope the authorities will have to provide it.
For the moment, though, monetary policy is causing less controversy than the other macroeconomic lever, fiscal policy.
Evaluating the impact of countercyclical macroeconomic policy is inherently difficult because we do not observe what would have happened to the economy in the absence of policy.
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The score on macroeconomic policy is roughly level-pegging: Labour has succeeded in neutralising macro management as an election issue.
Whereas the IMF has steered only Turkey's macroeconomic policy, the EU has been the catalyst for an entire programme of social and economic reforms.
It is the best way to ensure that problems in macroeconomic policy or within the financial sector are quickly identified.
So, there is at least one way in which short-term decisions on macroeconomic policy by the Bank of England and the chancellor could be important for the long-term as well.
It is in much better shape to withstand the blow, thanks to prudent macroeconomic policy.
The need to execute skillful monetary and macroeconomic policy will be key, both reports claim.
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Like so much of macroeconomic policy, that has the potential to trigger currency and trade wars that very soon get us back to the doorstep of financial collapse.
Or is it that macroeconomic policy has not allowed the creation of enough jobs for all, especially at the bottom of the ladder, leading to middle class anxiety which, combined with signaling effects, licensing regulation and what might be termed the Knowledge Economy Ideology, has created a credential arms race?
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Thatcher's macroeconomic policy was front and centre of the debate when she was in office - at least in the first few years.
Much the same goes for financial regulation, public spending and macroeconomic policy.
The model gets updated each month, using macroeconomic data and policy to see where that plays out with stock price and return on capital.
Taken together, the Fund's overhaul and the G20's expanded powers mark an important shift in international macroeconomic policy.
These often concern macroeconomic questions such as monetary policy and fiscal discipline, and the means of globalisation, such as free trade and foreign investment.
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He has published over 70 theoretical empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and co-authored the books Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence and Bailouts or Bail-ins?
"Because the macroeconomic situation is still bad, we are expecting there might be some new policy coming out, " said Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong.
"Tarrin doesn't look at macroeconomic policy, " says Surakiart Sathirathai, a leading economic adviser to the Thai Rak Thai Party.
Responsible monetary policy in the current environment requires attention not only to near-term macroeconomic conditions, but also to corollary risks with long-term effects.
The three first rank macroeconomic variables critical to economic growth are monetary, tax, and regulatory policy.
It says there should be a Macroeconomic Governance Committee, in which the economic institutions of Scotland and the rest of the UK would co-ordinate policy.
We also need to have better macroeconomic policy that ensures full employment so that wages are high for everyone, and we need to reemphasize the trades and other mid-skill service jobs, and decredentialize, delicence, our economy, so that there are many things you can do without a piece of paper.
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