This first volume of two on European Monetary Union (EMU) is based on the work, and gives the view, of the Commission of the European Communities. It provides a general introduction to the issues. The EMU project is outlined and its benefits and costs examined, including the implications for...

The focus of this article is the comparison of the relative influence of different determinants of investment (demand, the relative price of capital and labour, and profit) for five large European countries and the United States. The investment equations are derived from production functions,...

Chacun s'accorde pour dire que l'Union Economique et Monetaire Europeenne (UEM), si elle se fait, aura des consequences majeures sur l'economie mondiale, a travers differents canaux deja bien identifies : l'ecu concurrencera le dollar comme monnaie internationale ; la substitution de l'ecu a...