The future of the EMU
By: edited by Leila Simona Talani.
Contributors: Talani, Leila Simona.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780230218413
Subjects: Economic and Monetary Union; European Union; Euro area; Monetary unions -- Europe; Europe -- Economic integration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The many dimensions of a political union; title: The theory of optimum currency areas and political union; title: How does political integration affect the optimality of a monetary union?; title: Asymmetric shocks and lack of political union; title: Criticism of the traditional OCA-theory; title: Comparing the two views; title: A preliminary evaluation; title: The institutional weakness of the present euro-zone governance.