"The past twenty years have seen two waves of research on currency unions, prompted by the early experience of the European Economic and Monetary Union and by the existential crisis experienced by the euro area as a part of the global financial crisis. Alongside an original introduction, this...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Harris Dellas and George S. Tavlas (2009), 'An Optimum-Currency-Area Odyssey', Journal of International Money and Finance, 28 (7), November, 1117-37 -- 2. Alberto Alesina, Robert J. Barro and Silvana Tenreyro (2002), 'Optimal Currency Areas', NBER...

While fiscal forecasting and monitoring has its roots in the accountability of governments for the use of public funds in democracies, the Stability and Growth Pact has significantly increased interest in budgetary forecasts in Europe, where they play a key role in the EU multilateral budgetary...