Routledge handbook of the economics of European integration

History -- West european economic integration since 1950 (Nicholas Crafts) -- The history of European Economic and Monetary Union (Harold James) -- History of economic thought and policy-making at the European Commission (Ivo Maes) -- The single market and the euro -- The economics of the single market (Harry Flam) -- Factor movements : FDI (Bent Sørensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez) -- The euro as an international currency (Agnès Bénassy Quéré) -- Monetary and fiscal policy -- The common currency : more complicated than it seems (Charles Wyplosz) -- Design failures in the euro area : can they be fixed? (Paul de Grauwe) -- The credit channel of monetary policy in the euro area (Angela Maddaloni , Jose Peydro) -- Fiscal policy in the EU : an overview of recent and potential future developments (Roel Beetsma) -- The roles of fiscal rules, fiscal councils, and fiscal union in EU integration (Lars Calmfors) -- Trade issues -- European integration and the gains from trade (Gianmarco Ottaviano) -- The effects of european integration on the stability of international trade : a duration perspective (Tibor Besede) -- EU trade policy (André Sapir) -- The EU and the US : TTIP (Gabriel Felbermayr) -- The EU and the ACP countries (Ludger Kühnhardt) -- Selected policy areas -- Regional policy (Sascha Becker, Peter Egger ,Max von Ehrlich) -- The common agricultural policy (Johan Swinnen) -- Labor and social policy (Giuseppe Bertola) -- Tax competition and tax coordination (Christian Keuschnigg, Simon Loretz, Hannes Winner) -- Financial market integration, regulation and stability (Angel Ubide) -- The crisis -- The crisis in retrospect : causes, effects, and policy responses (Fritz Breuss) -- Exceptional policies for exceptional times : the ECB's response to the rolling crises of the euro area (Lucrezia Reichlin, Huw Pill) -- Living (dangerously) without a fiscal union (Ashoka Mody) -- Reforming the architecture of EMU : ensuring stability in Europe (Jakob de Haan, Jeroen Hesseland, Niels Gilbert) -- Institutions -- The political economy of european integration (Enrico Spolaore) -- Efficiency, proportionality and member states : power in the EU council of Ministers (Nikolaos Antonakakis, Harald Badinger, Wolf Heinrich Reuter) -- Measuring european economic and institutional integration (Helge Berger, Volker Nitsch) -- The dynamics of European economic integration : a legal perspective (Erich Vranes)