Introduction: Managing Complexity -- The Path to European Monetary Union -- The Evolution of the Debt Crisis -- Economic Impact of the Euro: Who Benefits? -- Re-assessing the Criteria for an Optimum Currency Area in Europe -- What Went Wrong with Public and Macroeconomic Stabilization? -- Policy...

This paper addresses the effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the introduction of the euro -- on economic and financial structures, institutions and performance. What type of changes is the euro fostering? What forces is it setting in motion that were not there before?...