Vom 13. bis 15. Februar 2009 fand in den Räumen der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing unter der Leitung von Wolfgang Quaisser, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, die Tagung "Zehn Jahre Euro - Bewährung in der Finanzkrise" statt. Einige der dort vorgestellten Referate sind hier...

This paper addresses the effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the introduction of the euro -- on economic and financial structures, institutions and performance. What type of changes is the euro fostering? What forces is it setting in motion that were not there before?...

This paper examines the interest spending and taxation channels through which EMU could affect the public finances. It provides a framework for examining different views on a further narrowing of interest rate differentials. A model of Blanchard and Fischer is amended to analyze the two...

This paper aims at determining whether economic, financial and monetary integration on the one hand, and institutional factors on the other, may have led to gradual convergence in key fiscal variables across the euro area over the recent period, bringing fiscal positions closer together. The...