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Book Synopsis Convergence Criteria for Joining the Euro by :
Download or read book Convergence Criteria for Joining the Euro written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agreed in Maastricht by the EU Member States in 1991 as part of the preparations for introduction of the euro, the convergence criteria are defined as a set of five economic and legal indicators designed to ensure economic convergence between interested non-euro area countries with the Member States of the euro area. The criteria include price stability, sound and sustainable public finances, long-term interest rate and exchange rate stability. Exchange rate stability is demonstrated if the Member State concerned has participated in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II) for a period of least two years without severe tensions. These legal conditions must be met by EU countries, in order to adopt the euro. Convergence reports are issued every two years, or when there is a specific request from a Member State to assess its readiness to join the euro area. The next one is expected in spring 2018. All EU Member States, euro and non-euro countries, take part in the European Semester of policy coordination which is also a vehicle to achieve real economic convergence.
Book Synopsis Economic Convergence in the Euro Area: Coming Together or Drifting Apart? by : Mr.Jeffrey R. Franks
Download or read book Economic Convergence in the Euro Area: Coming Together or Drifting Apart? written by Mr.Jeffrey R. Franks and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine economic convergence among euro area countries on multiple dimensions. While there was nominal convergence of inflation and interest rates, real convergence of per capita income levels has not occurred among the original euro area members since the advent of the common currency. Income convergence stagnated in the early years of the common currency and has reversed in the wake of the global economic crisis. New euro area members, in contrast, have seen real income convergence. Business cycles became more synchronized, but the amplitude of those cycles diverged. Financial cycles showed a similar pattern: sychronizing more over time, but with divergent amplitudes. Income convergence requires reforms boosting productivity growth in lagging countries, while cyclical and financial convergence can be enhanced by measures to improve national and euro area fiscal policies, together with steps to deepen the single market.
Book Synopsis European States and the Euro by : Kenneth Dyson
Download or read book European States and the Euro written by Kenneth Dyson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Economic and Monetary Union, the European Union has embarked on one of the biggest projects in its history. Previous literature has focused on how EMU came into being and on the policy issues that it raises. European States and the Euro seeks to move the discussion forwards by offering the first systematic evaluation of how it is affecting EU states, both members and non-members of the Euro-Zone. It is the first book to explicitly situate EMU in the growing literature on Europeanization. It examines the effects on public policies, political structures, discourses, and identities. The book seeks to identify the scope of EMU's effects, the direction that it imparts to political and policy changes, the mechanisms by which it produces its effects, and the role of domestic institutions, political leadership and specific forms of discourse in shaping responses. In addition, the book assesses how, and with what effects, EMU is affecting key policy sectors labour markets and wages, welfare states, and financial market governance. What conditions the degree of convergence discernible in these sectors? Finally, the book seeks to 'contextualize' EMU by assessing its effects both in comparison with other variables like globalization and in a historical perspective of the European Monetary System as a 'training ground'. The book combines sectoral and country case studies with a thematic treatment by recognized experts in their fields. It moves from globalization, through EU-level changes, to member states and finally to specific sectors. The main conclusions are that EMU is most important in affecting the timing, tempo and rhythm of domestic change that these changes are experienced pre-eminently at the level of policy; that it strengthens pressures for convergence; but that different domestic institutional arrangements and discourses lead to variations in policy processes and effects and in the way change is 'framed'. In particular, whilst EMU contains a neo-liberalizing tendency exhibited most clearly in financial market effects, it is not to be characterized as a neo-liberal project by means of which the EU is becoming an economic and social space simply converging around Anglo-American market capitalism.
Book Synopsis Aspects of European Monetary Integration by : A. Watson
Download or read book Aspects of European Monetary Integration written by A. Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough knowledge of the nature of the convergence criteria which states must meet in order to qualify for accession to the future Economic and Monetary Union of Europe and comprehensive coverage of both the economic and political rationale of the criteria within the framework of an international political economy approach. Thus, throughout the course of the analysis, three questions in particular are addressed: first, what is the relationship between the economics and politics of the convergence criteria; second, how do domestic and international factors impact upon their future realisation; and third what, overall, is the role of the state. This book gives valuable insights into the Economic and Monetary Union debate.
Download or read book The Euro written by Lili F. Bassil and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Euro: Conditions & Realities" is a study that is focussed on the conditions or convergence criteria set for joining the euro zone.The peak point of reaching a European Union and more specifically an Economic Monetary Union lies in the attainment of a single currency area. In order to take part in the euro, the European Member States have to abide by the conditions decided upon in the Treaties. the conditions lay the foundations for a stable economic area where the different states' economic indicators converge. Not one of the convergence criteria can be ignored for each one is justified by the role it plays in rendering the euro zone stable and long lasting. Each country's participation will have to be examined in the light of the conditions and the decision as to whether a member state is fit to join the euro zone will be made accordingly. If the convergence criteria are to be applied strictly, it would appear that only six countries should take part in the euro namely, Finland, France, germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Portugal. this conclusion is based on statistics emanating from the Commission. On March25, 1998, the Commission sent the Council a recommendation for it to abrogate its previous decision concerning the existence of excessive deficit in some on the Member States. On that same day, the European Commission published the Council's Recommendation in which 11 Member States were found fit to take part in the euro zone. These were Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxemberg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. The issue of the future of the euro remains a very debatable one with twodiametrically opposed views presenting equally strong and persuasive arguments. However, there are good reasons to think that very strict restrictions should be applied on the Member States that have not fully conformed to all the conditions so that confidence in the new currency may be justified.
Book Synopsis Convergence to Eurozone Among Central and Eastern European Countries by : Radulescu Magdalena
Download or read book Convergence to Eurozone Among Central and Eastern European Countries written by Radulescu Magdalena and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central and Eastern European Countries have faced many challenges on their way to well functional market economies and to their European integration path. After their EU accession, next challenge was to fulfill Maastricht criteria for adopting euro and entering the euro-zone. There is no easy way in achieving both nominal and real convergence with the most developed European countries. The nominal and real convergence criteria are rather contradictory. That's why the Central and Eastern European Countries must find the best solution for them. Are they prepared for European Monetary Union? How soon will they fulfill the convergence criteria and will adopt euro? What are their perspectives in the actual crisis context? These are the main questions we tried to answer in this work.
Download or read book One Currency for One Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis European Monetary Integration by : George K. Zestos
Download or read book European Monetary Integration written by George K. Zestos and published by South Western Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shorter text provides a complete overview of European economic and monetary integrationand investigates the euro's impact on Europe and the rest of the global economy. It takes anintuitive approach to explaining the complicated issues regarding the formation of the EMUand the introduction of the euro.
Book Synopsis Euro Adoption by Accession Countries - Macroeconomic Aspects of the Economic and Monetary Union by : Andreas Penzkofer
Download or read book Euro Adoption by Accession Countries - Macroeconomic Aspects of the Economic and Monetary Union written by Andreas Penzkofer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, grade: 1,0, Wayne State University (Department of Economics), course: Macroeconomics, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On 1st May 2004 ten new member states joined the European Union (EU), e.g. Estonia, Poland and Slovenia. The countries won't adopt the euro as their new currency immediately, because they first have to show that their economies have converged with the economy of the euro zone. Presently, the efforts and opinions of the new members differ about the adoption of the single currency. For instance, the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa told the press in February 2006 that there "is nothing on the path ahead" that could endanger the euro adoption in 2007. The government pursues a tight fiscal policy to meet all entry requirements. Recently, it introduced a dual pricing - that means all prices of goods and services are marked in tolars as well as euros - to raise consumer awareness in the preparation for the euro adoption.1 Contrarily, other countries are skeptical. The leader of the Polish conservative party Jaroslaw Kaczynski said during a campaign that he "doesn't see any benefits in adopting the euro. Euro adoption would lead to lower exports, lower national income and higher unemployment." The Estonian Sirje Karu said in an interview, that "Estonians are scared. We heard that when Finland adopted the euro, it took them quite a while to get used to it and prices increased. The poorest suffered." Using this situation as a background, it is interesting to analyze the euro adoption by accession states. How does the adoption process work? When should the euro be introduced and what macroeconomic effects does it have?
Download or read book Euro written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Euro There are twenty of the twenty-seven member states of the European Union that use the euro as their official currency. This collection of nations is formally referred to as the euro region or, more often, the eurozone, and as of the year 2023, it is comprised of approximately 344 million individuals on average. One hundred cents worth of the euro is equal to one euro. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Euro Chapter 2: CFA franc Chapter 3: European Central Bank Chapter 4: Icelandic króna Chapter 5: Eurozone Chapter 6: Legal tender Chapter 7: Slovak euro coins Chapter 8: Euro convergence criteria Chapter 9: Lithuania and the euro Chapter 10: Latvia and the euro Chapter 11: Bulgaria and the euro Chapter 12: Romania and the euro Chapter 13: Sweden and the euro Chapter 14: History of the euro Chapter 15: United Kingdom and the euro Chapter 16: Denmark and the euro Chapter 17: Montenegro and the euro Chapter 18: Enlargement of the eurozone Chapter 19: International status and usage of the euro Chapter 20: 500 euro note Chapter 21: Event study (II) Answering the public top questions about euro. (III) Real world examples for the usage of euro in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Euro.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Convergence Towards Monetary Union in Europe by : Paul de Grauwe
Download or read book The Economics of Convergence Towards Monetary Union in Europe written by Paul de Grauwe and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Euro - Should Britain join the European Monetary Union? by : Florian Langhammer
Download or read book The Euro - Should Britain join the European Monetary Union? written by Florian Langhammer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-04-24 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Economics - Monetary theory and policy, grade: 2,0 (B), Oxford Brookes University (Business School), course: Business Environment of the UK, language: English, abstract: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION OF THE EMU With the Maastricht Treaty the EC heads of state and government agreed on a three-legged "European Union" (EU) on December 9 and 10, 1991, which should include a common foreign and security policy, cooperation on domestic and security policy and the creation of a European Economic and Monetary Union (EEMU). The European Monetary Union (EMU) is to be effected according to a concrete time schedule - the three-stage plan which was agreed upon in the Maastricht Treaty and the conversion plan which was decided December 1995. To ensure the stability of a single currency, especially in the initial phase, the states participating in the EMU must satisfy the following convergence criteria as constituted in the Maastricht treaty: 1. Inflation criteria: Price stability with no more than 1.5 percentage points above the inflation rate of the top three member states. [...]
Download or read book The Euro written by Peter Coffey and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This introduction to a historically important transition provides both historical and theoretical background and engaged prognosis. Coffey examines the reasons why the EEC made its original decision to move along the road to EMU "provided the political will to do so existed", the earlier attempts at creating EMU, and the present situation. He assesses the Euro's qualities as a currency, examining the institutional arrangements (notably the European Central Bank and the European System of Central Banks), the policy choices, and the possible implications for countries both inside and outside the Euro Zone."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Should the UK become a member of the European Monetary Union? by : Helen Mueller
Download or read book Should the UK become a member of the European Monetary Union? written by Helen Mueller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2002-05-11 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1.7 (A-), Oxford Brookes University (School of Business), course: Business Environment UK, language: English, abstract: Background of EMU and current situation of the UK Since 1952 when the European Coal and Steel Community was founded the face of Europe has changed a lot. Barriers have been removed to enable goods, services, investment and people to move freely within the Community and politicians worked hard to get closer to the ideal of a political and economical united Europe. In two months the next major step will be taken by 12 nations of the European Union: The EURO will replace the old currencies. But Britain, although a member of the European Union, will not participate in Euro-zone in the foreseeable future. In 1991 the Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union) was signed in order to extend the Treaty of Rome (1957). One part of this Treaty was the formation of an economic and monetary union (EMU). Therefore the European Central Bank (ECB) was established and a new currency - the ECU, today called Euro. The ECB shall replace the national central banks and its "primary objective is to maintain a low and stable rate of price inflation for the euro currency." 1) Although Britain had joined the exchange rate system (ERS), the so called "parity grid" of the European Monetary System (EMS) in 1990 and had also signed the Maastricht Treaty it was forced to leave the EMS on Wednesday, 16 September 1992, known as "Black Wednesday". Sterling had dropped below the "floor" of the grid and all measures to support the currency failed. The UK gained opt-outs from stage 3 of EMU during the Maastricht conference, which means: "UK shall notify the council whether it intends to move to the third stage, and that unless it does, it will be under no obligation to do so." 2) Now, as the EMU comes closer the subject presses hard on the Blair-government but a date for the planned referendum, which shall bring a decision, is still not stated. [...]
Download or read book The Euro at Ten written by Kenneth Dyson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Euro Area is ten years old. This major new reappraisal by some of the world's leading scholars examines the effects of the new European single currency on the member states of the European Union in its first decade.
Download or read book Convergence Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1 January 1999 the euro has been introduced in 19 EU Member States; this report examines seven of the eight EU countries that have not yet adopted the single currency. One of the eight countries, Denmark, has notified the Council of the European Union (EU Council) of its intention not to participate in Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). As a consequence, Convergence Reports only have to be provided for Denmark if the country so requests. Given the absence of such a request, this report examines the following countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden. All seven countries are committed under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter the "Treaty") to adopt the euro, which implies that they must strive to fulfil all the convergence criteria. In producing this report, the ECB fulfils its requirement under Article 140 of the Treaty. Article 140 says that at least once every two years, or at the request of an EU Member State with a derogation, the ECB and the European Commission must report to the EU Council "on the progress made by the Member States with a derogation in fulfilling their obligations regarding the achievement of economic and monetary union". The seven countries under review in this report have been examined as part of the regular two-year cycle. The European Commission has also prepared a report, and both reports are being submitted to the EU Council in parallel. In this report, the ECB uses the framework applied in its previous Convergence Reports. It examines, for the seven countries concerned, whether a high degree of sustainable economic convergence has been achieved, whether the national legislation is compatible with the Treaties and the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank (Statute), and whether the statutory requirements are fulfilled for the relevant national central bank (NCB) to become an integral part of the Eurosystem.
Book Synopsis European Variations as a Key to Cooperation by : Ernst Hirsch Ballin
Download or read book European Variations as a Key to Cooperation written by Ernst Hirsch Ballin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation. Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve impasses in negotiations; it is, rather, a different structuring principle. It takes differences in needs and in democratically supported convictions seriously. A common core remains necessary, specifically concerning the basic principles of democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights and freedoms, and the common market. By taking this approach, the authors remove the pressure to embrace uniformity from the debate about the EU’s future. The book discusses forms of variation that fall both within and outside the current framework of European Union Treaties. The scope for these variations is mapped out in three domains: the internal market; the euro; and asylum, migration and border control.
