[From the precis]. This study provides a multi-dimensional analysis of the decision of British policy makers to join the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System (EMS) in October 1990, British monetary authorities are obliged to function within several different spheres...

[From the precis]. This study provides a multi-dimensional analysis of the decision of British policy makers to join the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System (EMS) in October 1990, British monetary authorities are obliged to function within several different spheres...

[From the Introduction]. This paper analyzes the relationship between French and West German national macroeconomic policy patterns and Franco-German economic cooperation in the 1980s. I will argue that in some fundamental respects policy-makers in both countries had identified the same economic...

[From the Introduction]. This paper analyzes the relationship between French and West German national macroeconomic policy patterns and Franco-German economic cooperation in the 1980s. I will argue that in some fundamental respects policy-makers in both countries had identified the same economic...

Like so many aspects of the European project, the sheer uniqueness of European Monetary Union can often make proper comparative analysis seem difficult and even strained. It seems in so many different ways to mark out uncharted territory. After all, this is a monetary union of democratic states,...

Like so many aspects of the European project, the sheer uniqueness of European Monetary Union can often make proper comparative analysis seem difficult and even strained. It seems in so many different ways to mark out uncharted territory. After all, this is a monetary union of democratic states,...

Summary. Contrary to often-heard concerns, the main question regarding the future of the European single currency is not who is going to leave, but who is going to join. Three of the new EU member states want to join Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and adopt the euro within the next year, and...

This paper examines why policy-makers (experts in central banks, ministries of finance, employers' organizations and trade unions) of Britain, France, and Germany have accepted an 'asymmetrical' Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) which incorporates a developed monetary component, yet a relatively...

Summary. Contrary to often-heard concerns, the main question regarding the future of the European single currency is not who is going to leave, but who is going to join. Three of the new EU member states want to join Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and adopt the euro within the next year, and...

This paper examines why policy-makers (experts in central banks, ministries of finance, employers' organizations and trade unions) of Britain, France, and Germany have accepted an 'asymmetrical' Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) which incorporates a developed monetary component, yet a relatively...