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Europe and the euro
Title:
Europe and the euro
Author:
Alesina, Alberto

Giavazzi, Francesco
ISBN:
9780226012834
Publication Information:
Chicago [etc.] : University of Chicago Press, 2010
Physical Description:
ix, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series:
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Series Title:
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The breakup of the euro area / Barry Eichengreen ; comment: Martin Feldstein -- The euro and structural reforms / Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, and Vincenzo Galasso ; comment: Otmar Issing -- The euro and firm restructuring / Matteo Bugamelli, Fabiano Schivardi, and Roberta Zizza ; comment: Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano -- Business cycles in the euro area / Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, and Lucrezia Reichlin -- The estimated effects of the euro on trade: why are they below historical effects of monetary unions among smaller countries? / Jeffrey Frankel ; comment: Silvana Tenreyro -- A new metric for banking integration in Europe / Reint Gropp and Anil K. Kashyap ; comment: Loretta J. Mester -- Why the European securities market is not fully integrated / Alberto Giovannini ; comment: Richard Portes -- The euro and fiscal policy / Antonio Fata?s and Ilian Mihov ; comment: Roberto Perotti -- How central bankers see it: the first decade of ECB policy and beyond / Stephen G. Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz ; comment: Pervenche Beres -- Re-evaluating Swedish membership in the EMU: evidence from an estimated model / Ulf So?derstro?m -- Euro membership as a U.K. monetary policy option: results from a structural model / Riccardo Dicecio and Edward Nelson ; comment: Carlo A. Favero.
Subject:
Economic and Monetary Union -- Congresses
Euro -- Congresses
Euro area -- Congresses
Monetary policy -- European Union countries -- Congresses
European Union countries -- Economic integration -- Congresses