Monetary policy, fiscal policies and labour markets

macroeconomic policymaking in the EMU

Three years after the birth of the European Monetary Union (EMU) economists are still divided in their assessment of the ability of its key institutions to provide macroeconomic stability and foster the reforms necessary to stimulate economic growth. In this collection, experts focus on issues ...

Building a dynamic Europe

the key policy debates

Edited by Jordi Gual. This succinct book provides a broad panorama of the key economic policy challenges facing the European Union today. The enlargement of the EU and its lacklustre performance over the last decade in terms of employment and productivity growth have prompted wide-ranging ...

Europe, globalization and sustainable development

This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. It will interest students and researchers of environmental policy and European politics. INDICE Part ...

Monetary strategies for joining the euro

In this book, well-known economists an policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for accesssion countries: accession to European Monetary Union

The European Union

economics and policies

The European Union is designed for readers from all disciplines studying the EU, its economics and policies, and the effects of economic integration. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis will ensure that it is read by students, researchers and professional policymakers alike. The European ...

Shaping the New Europe

economic policy challenges of European Union enlargement

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the process of European Union enlargement. The issues analysed range from modelling and analysing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic policy both ...

European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

The purpose of the volume is to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI. The volume deals with two levels of discussion: First, by ...

Growth and employment in Europe

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. It asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the ...

Fiscal federalism and european economic integration

The pace of economic integration amongst European Union (EU) member states has accelerated considerably during the past decade, highlighted by the process of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Many aspects of the EU's apparatus, however, have failed to evolve in order to meets these ...

Making european space

mobility, power and territorial identity

Making European Space crystallises and critically examines the key policy ideas emerging in the new field of European spatial planning, and explores the arguments surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development, sustainability, mobility and peripherality. It develops a theoretically informed critique based on discourse analysis ...

A business guide to EU enlargement

trade and investment opportunities in Europe and the accession states

This important new book looks dispassionately at the overall enlargement process and at each individual accession state and provides a clear assessment of the opportunities and difficulties presented to these countries and their business partners by their joining the EU. It is written in a ...

European collaboration in research and development

business strategy and public policy

#[This book] addresses the relevant topic of collaborations in research and development at two complementary levels. First, it focuses on their determinants, performance and impact through a survey of more than 500 companies in seven European countries and through case studies on several research joint ...

Making a european welfare state?

convergences and conflicts over european social policy

This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly changing field. Covers developments across a range of policy fields, from labour markets ...

Changing institutions in the European Union

a public choice perspective

This book makes a valuable, analytical contribution to recent debates on the ongoing institutional changes occurring within the European Union. It provides a comprehensive and diverse insight into a variety of areas, including in-depth studies of fiscal, monetary and voting issues, to help elucidate the ...

Europe

lives in transition

Europe: lives in transition gives a voice to people living through transition, opening a door for outsiders to seek to understand how such people have lived - an opportunity for one to speak and another to listen. The book has been deliberately written in an accessible ...

Europeanization,european integration and financial services

developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up- loading indicates the use of ...

¿Qué Europa queremos?

los retos políticos y económicos de la nueva Unión Europea

En el momento en que la Unión Europea se prepara para acoger a nuevos miembros, este libro aborda las cuestiones cruciales que conformarán su futuro como entidad regional, económica y política. Loukas Tsoukalis es uno de los más destacados expertos mundiales en integración europea y ...

Developments in the European Union 2

Bringing together specially- commissioned chapters by leading authorities and rigorously edited for coherence and accessibility, this all-new replacement for Developments in the European Union provides state-of-the-art coverage of the EU as it expands and reconstitutes itself in the early Twenty-first-century. Ranging broadly across the economic ...

European Union enlargement

Since its first enlargement in 1973, expansion has become a way of life for the EU. The current round of enlargement is, however, unprecedented in its scale, in the diversity of applicants, and in the impact on EU structures and policies. This major new text ...

Reshaping economic and monetary union

membership rules and budget policies in Germany, France and Spain

Following Maastricht national governments found themselves pushed into distinctive roles, as promoters, gatekeepers, reformers and defectors, as voter preferences and central bank powers combined in different ways to create clear incentives for politicians. These roles explain the push from certain countries for specific changes to ...