Key issues relating to the design and implementation of monetary policy in an emerging European economic and monetary union are discussed, although specific institutional proposals for transition to EMU are neither endorsed nor dismissed. The goals of monetary policy are examined in the context...

The Mundell-Fleming model of international macroeconomics originated in the early 1960s and has been extended during the ensuing quarter century. This paper develops an exposition that integrates the various facets of the model and incorporates its extensions into a unified analytical framework....

<DIV>Since the five largest industrial democracies concluded the Plaza Agreement in 1985, the theory and practice of international economic policy coordination has become the subject of spirited academic and public-policy debate. While some view policy coordination as crucial for the construction of...</div>

<DIV>This volume brings together nine papers from a conference on international macroeconomics sponsored by the NBER in 1985. International economists as well as graduate students in the fields of global monetary economics, finance, and macroeconomics will find this an outstanding contribution to...</div>

<DIV>This volume, presenting some of the finest new research on exchange rates and international macroeconomics, contains  papers and critical commentary by thirty-two leading economists. Taken together, these papers provide sound evidence about the effects of real and monetary factors on exchange...</div>