Summarising the findings of DG ECFIN's fellowship programme on the future of EMUDG ECFIN has now published a series of Economic Papers written by distinguished scholars in the context of its Fellowship Initiative on "The future of EMU & Economic growth perspectives for Europe". This policy brief...

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact works: trade, investment, finance, migration and...

1. Introduction and overview / Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Tom Spingbett -- 2. Accounting for UK economic performance 1973-2009 / Ray Barrell, Dawn Holland and Iana Liadze -- 3. British labour market performance before the crisis, 1993-2007 / Christopher A. Pissarides -- 4....