A quiet revolution -- The conundrum of market reforms -- The politics of market ideas -- Strange bedfellows -- The market as a constraint -- The market as a norm -- The market as a space -- The market as a talisman -- The Janus-faced European Union

Verlagsinfo: Le mouvement de globalisation des économies favorise le développement des unions régionales. Parmi tous les accords existants, l'Union européenne fait figure de précurseur. C'est l'ensemble qui a poussé le plus loin le processus d'intégration institutionnel et économique à...

We investigate the key factors underlying business cycle synchronisation in the euro area applying the extreme-bounds analysis. We examine both traditional determinants and new, EMU-specific policy and structural indicators over the past 25 years. Our evidence seems to support the endogeneity...