IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eej/eeconj/v28y2002i1p25-44.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The EURO: A Success against the Odds?

Author

Listed:
  • Iain Begg

    (Business School, South Bank University, London)

Abstract

The move to monetary union has been criticized by many economists and the weak performance of the euro on the foreign exchange markets between 1999 and 2001 has tended to reinforce these doubts. Yet in many respects the introduction of the euro has been a success, even though the EMU policy framework remains to be completed. This paper looks at the introduction of the euro in the light of expectations about what would happen and appraises the external performance of the single currency. It then discusses the EMU policy framework and how it might evolve before offering a verdict on the euro so far.

Suggested Citation

  • Iain Begg, 2002. "The EURO: A Success against the Odds?," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 28(1), pages 25-44, Winter.
    • Handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:28:y:2002:i:1:p:25-44
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://web.holycross.edu/RePEc/eej/Archive/Volume28/V28N1P25_44.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hein, Eckhard & Truger, Achim, 2002. "European Monetary Union: Nominal convergence, real divergence and slow growth? An investigation into the effects of changing macroeconomic policy institutions associated with monetary union," WSI Working Papers 107, The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation.
    2. Hein, Eckhard & Truger, Achim, 2005. "European Monetary Union: nominal convergence, real divergence and slow growth?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 7-33, March.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    EMU; Foreign Exchange; Monetary Union; Monetary;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:28:y:2002:i:1:p:25-44. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eeaa1ea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.