specialization, growth, and convergence in the context of European integration. They offer fresh theoretical and empirical evidence … increased integration. These subjects are addressed in both individual and cross-country analysis using innovative methodologies …. Integration, Growth and Cohesion in an Enlarged European Union will be of particular interest to researchers and policy makers …

Introduction -- The Role of Banks in Financial Integration: Some New Theory and Evidence from New EU Members … Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland - A Theoretical Analysis -- Aspects of Market Integration in a Transition Economy … European economic growth. This book examines the interaction between European and global financial integration and analyses the …

, structural reform and economic integration. Focusing on the ongoing integration process in the euro area and the EU, it analyses … the economic integration that has taken place since the 1980s and which is marked by the advent of the euro and the …

intellectual historical perspective on the creation of the euro and its 20 first years, a comprehensive review of the current and … future challenges of the euro area, including a critical look at the different options for the reform of its governance and … achievements -- 2. Ideas that made the euro (and those that did not make it) (Jacques Le Cacheux) -- 3. The twenty first years …

This book critically analyses the crisis of the euro currency from 2008 to the present. It argues that an understanding … euro. It goes on to describe and explain the crises in four countries - Greece, Ireland, Spain and Italy - showing how they … differ and together challenge the euro currency by requiring a varied policy response from Europe. Eurocritical is a guide …

Part 1 - The Eurozone as a (non) Optimum Currency Area -- STIGLITZ, Joseph. The fundamental flaws in the Euro Zone … Euro Area economic structures changing? -- ANDRADE, João A. S., DUARTE, Adelaide P. S. and SIMÕES, Marta C. N., Differences … in human capital and openness to trade as barriers to growth and convergence in the EU -- LOUÇÃ, Francisco. Has the euro …

lost in terms of economic and social cost from 2002 to 2014 as a consequence of the super-evaluation of the Euro and the … -- PART II: Some Empirical Evidence: Why European Treaties are a Negative-sum Game -- 11. The Cost of the Super-Euro: 2002 …

-- The Global Crisis and Alternative Scenarios to Save the Euro: A Spanish Perspective -- Appendix: Ideology and Economics in … whole project. Further, it undermines the internal macroeconomic logic of a single currency like the euro, and gives a … prominent non-democratic role to financial markets. As it happened in the past with the gold-standard, the euro condemns today …

1 Introduction -- 2 What Went Wrong With the Euro?.- 3 Public Debt: Introductory Remarks -- 4 Was the Eurozone an … of the Euro? -- 12 On the Destabilizing Effects of Bailouts -- 13 On Sound Money and Credit Conditions -- 14 The Case of … Problem -- 18 Can There Be Stable Currencies After the Euro? -- 19 The Gold Standard and Free Banking -- 20 An Unexpected …