Europe and the euro
By: edited by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi.
Contributors: Alesina, Alberto.; Giavazzi, Francesco.
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226012834
Subjects: Economic and Monetary Union -- Congresses; Euro -- Congresses; Euro area -- Congresses; Monetary policy -- European Union countries -- Congresses; European Union countries -- Economic integration -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes proceedings of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference, held Oct. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The breakup of the euro area / Barry Eichengreen ; comment: Martin Feldstein; title: The euro and structural reforms / Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, and Vincenzo Galasso ; comment: Otmar Issing; title: The euro and firm restructuring / Matteo Bugamelli, Fabiano Schivardi, and Roberta Zizza ; comment: Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano; title: Business cycles in the euro area / Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, and Lucrezia Reichlin; title: The estimated effects of the euro on trade: why are they below historical effects of monetary unions among smaller countries? / Jeffrey Frankel ; comment: Silvana Tenreyro; title: A new metric for banking integration in Europe / Reint Gropp and Anil K. Kashyap ; comment: Loretta J. Mester; title: Why the European securities market is not fully integrated / Alberto Giovannini ; comment: Richard Portes; title: The euro and fiscal policy / Antonio Fatás and Ilian Mihov ; comment: Roberto Perotti; title: How central bankers see it: the first decade of ECB policy and beyond / Stephen G. Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz ; comment: Pervenche Berès; title: Re-evaluating Swedish membership in the EMU: evidence from an estimated model / Ulf Söderström; title: Euro membership as a U.K. monetary policy option: results from a structural model / Riccardo Dicecio and Edward Nelson ; comment: Carlo A. Favero.