European Monetary Integration

European Monetary Union: Post-Maastricht Perspectives on Monetary and Real Integration in Europe.- 1. European Monetary Integration after Maastricht.- 2. The Single Market Program and EC Monetary Integration.- 3. Transition Problems towards EMU.- Discussant: Randall Henning.- The European Monetary System and European Integration: An Evaluation.- 1. Introduction.- 2. European Macroeconomic Convergence.- 3. Macroeconomic Convergence and Economic Integration.- 4. Conclusion 70.- Data.- Discussant: Vittorio Grilli.- Basic Features of a European Monetary Order.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Facing the Challenge of an EC Monetary Order.- 3. The Need for Coherence of Fiscal and Monetary Policy.- 4. Perspectives.- Towards Monetary Union in the European Community: Why and How.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Where: The Meaning of Monetary Union.- 3. Why: Costs and Benefits from Monetary Union.- 4. How: Concrete Steps.- 5. Summary and Conclusions.- Discussant: Alan G. Isaac.- German Monetary Unification and European Monetary Union: Theoretical Issues and Strategic Policy Problems.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Are Germany and Europe Optimum Currency Areas?.- 3. German Monetary Unification.- 4. European Monetary Union.- 5. Big Leap for Germany and Gradualism for Europe.- Discussant: John Williamson.- Liberalization and Regulation in the Process of Financial Market Integration in the European Community 163.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Historical Record.- 3. Liberalization and Regulation in the Commission's New Approach.- 4. Likely Impact of the New Approach: Microeconomics.- 5. Likely Impact of the New Approach: Macroeconomics.- 6. Conclusions.- Discussant: Sydney J. Key.- Problems of European Monetary Policy Coordination in the Transition Phase.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Open Questions In Stage One.- 3. OpenQuestions of Stage 2.- 4. Conclusions.- Discussant: Horst Ungerer.- Creating a European Central Bank after 1992: Issues of EC Monetary Integration and Problems of Institutional Innovation.- 1. Monetary

Paul J. J. Welfens, geb. 1957 in Düren, Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre in Wuppertal, Duisburg und Paris, Promotion 1985, Habilitation1989. Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Volkswirtschaftslehre - Schwerpunkt Makroökonomische Theorie und Politik an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal; Präsident des Europäischen Instituts für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen (EIIW); Jean-Monnet-Professor für Europäische Wirtschaftsintegration; zuvor Distinguished Research Fellow am AICGS/The Johns Hopkins University, Professor an der Universität Münster bzw. Potsdam, Visiting Alfred Grosser Professor Sciences Po, Paris.