The German Currency Union of 1990
Subtitle: A Critical Assessment
Contributors: Stephen F. Frowen (Editor); Jens Holscher (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780312161637
Subjects: 1990-; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Germany; History; Monetary Policy; Unification, 1990; Business/Economics
Description: The book provides an assessment of one of the most exciting experiments in modern economic history: the German currency union of 1990. The task is approached on three levels: First, the international consequences are analysed from various perspectives and different paradigms of monetary theory.

Second, the controversial results lead to a closer look at the relationship between monetary policy and the real sector of the German economy, and third, the book concludes with a reconsideration of the old economic question, whether money matters, applied to the German case.