Political and economic consequences of economic and monetary union: taking stock of the first eight years

Abstract

Has EMU made Germany worse-off? : monetary aggregates, fiscal and wage policy in the new regime / Benedicta Marzinotto -- Plus ça change-- ? : the European social model between "economic governance" and "social Europe" from the Maastricht Treaty to the European Constitution / H. Tolga Bolukbasi -- States and the exercise of power in the new European Union / Paul Schure and Amy Verdun -- Rotation, representation or rather a ragged reform? : on the political economy of ECB restructuring / Heiko Fritz -- Progressing towards legitimacy : financial services sector policymaking in the EU after Lamfalussy / Heather McKeen-Edwards and Ian Roberge -- Making sense of fiscal rules in EMU / Valeria De Bonis and Pompeo Della Posta -- The art and craft of budgeting : fiscal policy in the Eurozone / Frans K.M. van Nispen -- Direct taxation, the ECJ and implications for member state budgets / Martha O'Brien