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 European Union began with efforts in the Cold War era to foster economic integration among a few Western European countries. Today’s EU constitutes an upper tier of government that affects almost every level of policymaking in each of its twenty-seven member states. The recent financial...

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...

Introduction : discourse of microcredit : framing and disciplining the subjects of development / Jude L. Fernando -- The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction : locating local "livelihoods" in political analysis / Heloise Weber -- Disciplining the developmental subject :...

"A long road to substantive levels of industrialization still lies ahead of most African countries. The challenges facing policy-makers, industrialists, industrial development activist and all other actors in these countries are enormous. This raises the question as to, what role the...

The least-developed countries, international trade and the European Union. What about "Everything But Arms"? / Gerrit Faber and Jan Orbie -- The development of EBA/ Jan Orbie -- EBA, EU trade policy and the ACP / Maurizio Carbone -- Bureaucratic competition in EU trade policy / Adrian Van Den...

The trend toward privatization, which began with privatization experiments in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in the United States, has attracted the attention of policymakers over the past two decades. Privatization is broadly supported by...