The Eastern Enlargement of the Eurozone

The Eastern Enlargement of the EU will not be complete until the new member states join the EMU. Economic and political economy arguments point to fast EMU accession of new member states. Failure to do so will create a two speed Europe

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The Eastern Enlargement of the Eurozone Edited by

MAREK DABROWSKI Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland and

JACEK ROSTOWSKI Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw & Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

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0-387-25764-0 (HB) 978-0-387-25764-8 (HB) 0-387-25766-7 ( e-book) 978-0-387-25766-2 (e-book)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Tables ................................................................................................vii List of Figures................................................................................................ix Contributors ...................................................................................................xi Acknowledgements.......................................................................................xv Chapter 1. When Should the New Member States Join EMU? ......................1 J. Rostowski

Chapter 2. The Exchange Rate: Shock Generator or Shock Absorber?........15 M. Maliszewska, W. Maliszewska

Chapter 3. Do the New Member States Fit the Optimum-Currency-Area Criteria? ........................................................................................................41 M. Blaszkiewicz-Schwartzman, P. Wozniak

Chapter 4. EMU Enlargment and Trade Creation ........................................63 M. Maliszewska

Chapter 5. Future EMU Membership and Wage Flexibility.........................75 A. Radziwill, M. Walewski

Chapter 6. Exchange Rate Regimes and Nominal Convergence ..................91 M. Szczurek

Chapter 7. EMU Enlargement and the Choice of Euro Conversion Rates .113 L. W. Rawdanowicz

Chapter 8. The Short-Run Macroeconomic Effects of Discretionary Fiscal Policy Changes.................................................................................131 J. Siwinska, P. Bujak

Chapter 9. How to Reform the Stability and Growth Pact .........................147 J. Rostowski

Chapter 10. Uneven Growth in a Monetary Union.....................................159 N. Zoubanov

Chapter 11. ECB Decision-Making in an Enlarged EMU ..........................183 W. Paczynski

Chapter 12. A Strategy for EMU Enlargement...........................................199 M. Dabrowski

Index ...........................................................................................................227

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