Title: Enlarging the Euro area : external empowerment and domestic transformation in East Central Europe /
Authors: Dyson, Kenneth H. F.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Economic and Monetary Union.; Eurozone.; Eurozone.; Europe Economic integration.; Europe, Eastern Economic integration.; Europe, Central Economic integration.
Abstract: This book offers the first in-depth and systematic analysis of the challenges of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the European Union. Combing country and sectoral case studies with a thematic treatment, it focuses in particular on how the prolonged process of accession to the Euro Area is affecting domestic economic policies in the accession states of east central Europe.
Contents: Euro entry as defining and negotiating fit : conditionality, contagion, and domestic politics / Kenneth Dyson. Pt. 1. European and global contexts. EMU and the new member states : strategic choices in the context of global norms / Jim Rollo -- Real convergence and EMU enlargement : the time dimension of fit with the Euro Area / Iain Begg -- Economic adjustment and the euro in new member states : the structural dimension of fit / Erik Jones -- Optimal economic governance in an enlarged European Union : scenarios and options / Ingo Linsenmann and Wolfgang Wessels -- Pt. II. Domestic political and policy contexts. The Baltic States : using pacesetting on EMU accession to consolidate domestic stability culture / Magnus Feldmann -- From laggard to pacesetter : Bulgaria's road to EMU / Vesselin Dimitrov -- From pacesetter to laggard : the political economy of negotiating fit in the Czech Republic / Frank Bönker -- The first shall be the last? Hungarys road to EMU / Béla Greskovits -- Poland : unbalanced domestic leadership in negotiating fit / Radoslaw Zubek --.Persistent laggard : Romania as Eastern Europe's Sisyphus / Dimitris Papadimitriou. Pt. III. Patterns of sectoral governance. Financial market governance : evolution and convergence / Piroska Mohácsi Nagy -- EMU and fiscal policy / Vesselin Dimitrov -- EMU and welfare state adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe / Martin Rhodes and Maarten Keune -- Domestic transformation, strategic options and 'soft' power in Euro Area accession / Kenneth Dyson.