The creation of the European Central Bank and the Euro have brought new challenges to EU integration and economic policy. This book looks into issues ofmonetary and factor market policies. The analysis also presents new theoretical and empirical research on the - transitory - decline of the...

The real thing: A tale of two product launches -- "A burning building with no exits': designing a euro inferno -- The French vice : gold, the euro and a peculiar taste for monetary discipline -- No end of a lesson : schools of thought collide in the Eurozone -- Ire and ice : two crises in a...