For well over a decade many observers had warned that the European Union was ill-prepared in case of a financial storm because its market integration far outpaced its policy integration. This situation was well known to policy-makers but it was hoped that financial crises would wait until policy...

The future emergence of a European monetary zone is set to transform the configuration of the international monetary system and the roles of the dollar, the Euro and the yen within this system. This book addresses this issue with discussion of: * exchange rate policies pursued in the principal...

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The disparity between the prosperous Northern countries of Germany and France and the plummeting Southern countries, including Italy and Greece, has exacerbated problems within...

La question des incidences externes de l'union monétaire européenne a longtemps été un sujet de préoccupation quasi-exclusivement français. Elle fait depuis peu l'objet d'un intérêt croissant hors d'Europe. En se dotant d'une monnaie commune, les pays de l'UE mettront en effet à...