By Helge Berger, Thomas Moutos

In might 2004 the eu Union will endure the most important growth in its heritage whilst ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become participants. The variety of new contributors and their variety make this "big bang" expansion really demanding. not just do those international locations differ extensively in language, tradition, and geography, but additionally their in line with capita source of revenue is under part that of latest participants. european officers think that elevated integration will serve the EU's targets of peace, balance, prosperity, and democracy; however the much less summary questions of prices and advantages of growth are extra complicated. all the chapters during this CESifo quantity addresses a distinct point of european growth. The members, all top overseas practitioners and students, think about such themes because the impression of euro region growth on eu imperative financial institution financial coverage making; utilizing the euro as an exterior anchor for a countrywide forex; employee migration and source of revenue differentials; the Swiss event with immigration coverage in an instantaneous democracy framework; distinctive quarter research utilizing a computable normal equilibrium version of the area economic system; funding and activity construction and destruction in incumbent member international locations; and the uneven results of expansion on excessive- and low-income incumbent nations. Taken jointly, the chapters offer worthwhile assistance in shaping the european guidelines of the long run.

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3 Demand and supply shocks in the euro area and in accession countries. Source: Fidrmuc and Korhonen 2001, table 2. Helge Berger, Jakob de Haan, and Robert Inklaar 41 for most countries. Shocks are identified using two-variable Vector Auto Regressions (VARs) for output and prices and the Blanchard and Quah (1989) assumptions. The results suggest that, on average, demand and supply shocks are more closely correlated to the respective euro area shocks for the euro area countries than for the accession countries.

S. Federal Reserve System extend the borders of the states of the union, and some of the (post-1992) Landeszentralbanken in the Bundesbank Zentralbankrat represent more than one German Land. An application of this principle to the ECB after enlargement could help reduce the number of decision makers on the council. If the design of central bank areas aimed at establishing regional banks with approximately similar economic weight, it would also contribute significantly to avoiding mismatches between voting power and economic size.

2), which includes the national central bank governors. Thus, a reform of the ECB that fails to safeguard the established voting rights of current member countries’ central banks might not be politically acceptable. After all, an equal right to participate in ECB policy decision making was an integral part of the Maastricht Treaty, which established the currency union. Governments of some member countries could experience opposition to their letting go of the countries’ 0 Helge Berger, Jakob de Haan, and Robert Inklaar 43 ‘‘last’’ bit of influence on ECB policymaking after having exchanged monetary sovereignty for a seat on the ECB Governing Council in 1999.

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