When preparing its accession strategy, candidate countries with currency board arrangements have to deal with two basic issues: on the exchange rate system and on entering the EMU. The national legal framework regarding monetary issues and the negotiation positions of individual countries are...

This paper considers two kinds of issues facing EMU. One concerns qualifications and membership: how qualifications are evaluated and which member states are likely to meet the criteria set for membership in the third stage of EMU in 1999. The other concerns the capacity of member states,...

...this paper...will limit itself to presenting a succinct description of the process of monetary union as is outlined in the Maastricht Treaty, formulating and evaluating two of many stylized explanations for its unexpected approval in 1991, and finally some significant findings relating to...

The Maastricht Treaty created legal precondition for establishing a monetary union. However, before the monetary union is realized, a certain time has to elapse, during which the competences over monetary policy will stay in national hands. Consequently in this transitional period, the monetary...

[From the Introduction]. Theories of international relations and comparative politics characterize the movement within Western Europe toward monetary integration primarily in regional terms. The global context within which European monetary integration is taking place is viewed in this...

...this paper...will limit itself to presenting a succinct description of the process of monetary union as is outlined in the Maastricht Treaty, formulating and evaluating two of many stylized explanations for its unexpected approval in 1991, and finally some significant findings relating to...

This paper considers two kinds of issues facing EMU. One concerns qualifications and membership: how qualifications are evaluated and which member states are likely to meet the criteria set for membership in the third stage of EMU in 1999. The other concerns the capacity of member states,...