Economic performance and stabilization policy in a monetary union with imperfect labor and goods' markets / Fabrizio Coricelli, Alex Cukierman, and Alberto Dalmazzo ; Discussant: Erkki Koskela -- Asymmetric transmission of monetary policy: what should the ECB do if one size does not fit all? /...

The success of European monetary integration-what the editors of this CESifo volume call "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date"-is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary policy for...

Intro -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 - Privatizing Network Industries -- 2 - Network Utilities in the United States: Sector Reforms without Privatization -- 3 - Privatization in Austria: Some Theoretical Reasons and Performance Measures -- 4 - Privatization in Denmark, 1980-2002 -- 5 -...