Countries in a monetary union can adjust to shocks either through internal or external mechanisms. We quantitatively assess for the European Union a number of relevant mechanisms suggested by Mundell’s optimal currency area theory, and compare them to the United States. For this purpose, we...

The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...

This book provides a fully revised and up-to-date analysis of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). With four entirely new chapters on responses to the financial crisis and the debate on reform options, Tomann assesses the EMU in comparison with other currency regimes through the adoption of a...

Dieses Buch stellt dar, warum wir die Europäische Währungsunion brauchen. Es plädiert für eine vertiefte Integration, ohne dabei deren mögliche Fallstricke auszublenden. Konkrete Maßnahmen werden diskutiert, um den Euro dauerhaft funktionsfähig zu machen. Neben der Verpflichtung aller...