China's integration into the world economy has benefited its people by reducing poverty and raising living standards, and it has benefited the industrialized world by producing manufactured goods at lower cost. It has also raised geopolitical concerns as China's power grows, economic concerns as...

China's integration into the world economy has benefited its people by reducing poverty and raising living standards, and it has benefited the industrialized world by producing manufactured goods at lower cost. It has also raised geopolitical concerns as China's power grows, economic concerns as...

Mit seinem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union am 1. Mai 2004 hat sich Polen verpflichtet, vollständiges Mitglied der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (WWU) zu werden, sobald es die sog. Maastricht-Kriterien erfüllt hat. Obgleich die währungspolitische Integration potenziell hohe Effizienzgewinne...

This paper addresses arguments that a system of fiscal insurance between member states of the European Union is needed to act in replacement of nominal exchange rate flexibility as an automatic stabilizer under monetary union. Many authors have argued or assumed that asymmetric real...