Contains 12 papers presented at a conference held under the auspices of the Money, Macro, and Finance Research Group in January 1999 at the London Business School. Contributions include the keynote paper presented by the European Central Bank's Vitor Gaspar on the monetary policy strategy of the ECB. Other chapters address the importance of political factors in creating the European Monetary System; the experiences of the three largest countries in the European Monetary Union (EMU) in trying to satisfy the Maastricht criteria; the economics and politics of possible UK entry into the EMU; and the likely functioning of EMU. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This volume offers something for almost any Europeanist interested in the resurgence of the monetary side of integration. ECSA Review