"Dollar hegemony [use of the US dollar as the benchmark currency under the Bretton Woods system] is a feature of modern … political economic foundations of and prospects for dollar hegemony"-- …

Schumpeter to be rediscovered? / Peter Mooslechner -- The impact of the euro on investment : sectoral evidence / Tomas Dvorak … integration of Czech, Hungarian and Polish bond markets with the Euro area bond market : a deja-vu of the Club-Med convergence …

the context of what he terms 'US money mercantilism' have favored the US dollar 'core' of the global system. Chapters go …

prolonged growth. They contend that the economic impact of the euro, and its accompanying institutions, is likely to be … as the Stability and Growth Pact which govern the euro. The authors propose alternative policy and institutional … arrangements within which the euro should be embedded. They demonstrate that these would have the benefits of a single currency …

, and growth. On one hand, the operation of the euro will be hindered if rigidities in labour and product markets persist … functioning of the euro will affect future patterns of European employment. Pier Carlo Padoan and his distinguished group of … contributing authors go beyond the common European-based debates to consider the impact of the euro as a global currency on the …

adoption of the euro. In this book, well-known economists and policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for … accession countries: accession to European Monetary Union (EMU). They debate which monetary and exchange rate strategies are … optimal during the run-up to EMU, and consider the conflict that may arise in trying to meet both the exchange rate stability …