European monetary integration

The success of European monetary integration -- called by the editors of this CESifo volume "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date" -- is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Policy competition and policy cooperation in a monetary union

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro area. The policy makers are the union central bank, the German government, the French government and other governments. The policy targets are price stability in the union, full employment in Germany, full ...

Institutional conflicts and complementarities

This important collection presents an authoritative selection of papers on "Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities" This publication is intent on building bridges between economics and the other social sciences. The focus is on the interaction between monetary policy and wage bargaining institutions in European Monetary Union ...

The interaction of monetary policy and wage bargaining in the European Monetary Union

lessons from the endogenous money approach

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone. He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of cooperation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters are responsible for price stability while the ...

The price of the Euro

This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions, on the Growth and Stability pact, the European Central Bank, an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU, and the costs ...

How do central banks write?

an evaluation of inflation reports by inflation targeting central banks

Policy coordination in a monetary union

A comprehensive study of the international coordination of economic policy in a monetary union. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the union central bank, the German government ...

Money demand in Europe

an empirical approach

The EURO has now been in place for more than two years, but only the future will tell if the ECB can manage the EURO currency in the long- term. This book discusses the economic principals underlying the demand for money, and the possibilities to ...

L'euro, une monnaie sans politique?

Enfin un ouvrage clair, pédagogique et pas manichéen, sur l'euro et les politiques économiques menées en Europe! L'auteur traite sérieusement des arcanes du pacte de stabilité, de la BCE, du déclin démographique, etc. A conseiller à tout honnête homme (ou femme) qui s ...

Politiques et pratiques des banques d'émission en Europe

(XVIIe-XXe siècle). Le Bicentenaire de la Banque de France dans la perspective de l'identité monétaire européenne

On prête généralement beaucoup aux banques d'émission. Leur influence sur l'activité économique, face à la crise comme face à la croissance, leur action sur le cours des relations monétaires internationales fondent cette opinion largement répandue, hier comme aujourd'hui. Les études ici rassemblées ...

The politics of money

towards sustainability and economic democracy

The book opens with a review of the role of money in currnt society, an overview of the history of money creations and a critique of the main theoretical developements in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a ...

En el nombre del euro

(Revista Cuadernos de información económica nº 166, año 2003)

Monetary policy in the euro area

Strategy and decision-making at the European Central Bank

How and for whose benefit the European Central Bank (ECB) will work is the most important issue facing Europe, and has been the subject of vast media and academic interest which has already spawned a vast literature of discussion papers in the academic literature, and ...

Britain, Europe and EMU.

La guia del Euro.

Todas las respuestas sobre la moneda unica y sus ultimas novedades. Segunda edicion ampliada..