Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe

by Kenneth Dyson

Overview

This book offers the first in-depth and systematic analysis of the challenges of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the European Union. Combing country and sectoral case studies with a thematic treatment, it focuses in particular on how the prolonged process of accession to the Euro Area is affecting domestic economic policies in the accession states of east central Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199277674
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/11/2007
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Cardiff University

Table of Contents

1. Euro Entry as Defining and Negotiating Fit: Conditionality, Contagion and Domestic Politics, Kenneth Dyson2. EMU and the New Member States: Strategic Choices in the Context of Global Norms, Jim Rollo3. Real Convergence and EMU Enlargement: The Time Dimension of Fit with the Euro Area, Iain Begg4. Economic Adjustment and the Euro in the New Member States: The Structural Dimension of Fit, Erik Jones5. Optimal Economic Governance in an Enlarged European Union: Scenarios and Options, Ingo Linsenmann and Wolfgang Wessels6. The Baltic States: Using Pace-Setting on EMU Accession to Consolidate Domestic Stability Culture, Magnus Feldmann7. From Laggard to Pace-Setter: Bulgaria's Road to EMU, Vesselin Dimitrov8. From Pace-Setter to Laggard: The Political Economy of Negotiating Fit in the Czech Republic, Frank Bönker9. The First Shall Be the Last? Hungary's Road to EMU, Bela Greskovits10. Poland: Unbalanced Domestic Leadership in Negotiating Fit, Radoslaw Zubeck11. Persistent Laggard: Romania as Eastern Europe's Sisyphus, Dimitris Papadimitriou12. Financial Market Governance: Evolution and Convergence, Piroska Nagy13. EMU and Fiscal Policy, Vesselin Dimitrov14. Domestic Transformation, Strategic Options and 'Soft' Power in Euro Area Accession, Kenneth Dyson