Monetary and Financial Issues in German Unification

This volume contains a group of papers written on the eve of German Unification by the IMF mission team working with the German government. It covers an array of critical issues in the economics of the unification process: monetary, exchange rate, fiscal, and structural issues; migration and the labor market; and the domestic and international macroeconomic consequences of unification. In all these areas it is the "first take" written in the throes of policy formulation