Roel Beetsma is a Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Amsterdam and a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.
Carlo Favero is Professor of Economics at the Universita Bocconi, Milan.
Alessandro Missale is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Universita degli studi di Milano-Bicocca.
Anton Muscatelli is the Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.
Piergiovanna Natale is Professor of Economics at the Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.
Patrizio Tirelli is Professor of Economics at the Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
Editors' introduction; Part I. Monetary Policy: 1. The European Central
Bank: a view from across the ocean Stephen G. Cecchetti; 2. Which measure
of inflation should the ECB target? C. A. Favero; 3. An evaluation of
alternative targeting rules for the ECB Pierpaolo Benigno and J. David
López-Salido; 4. Inflation modelling in the euro area Fabio C. Bagliano,
Roberto Golinelli and Claudio Morana; Part II. Fiscal Policies: 5. The
interaction between monetary and fiscal policies in a monetary union: a
review of recent literature Roel Beetsma and Xavier Debrun; 6. Independent
or coordinated? Monetary and fiscal policy in EMU Luca Lambertini and
Riccardo Rovelli; 7. Interaction of fiscal policies in the euro area: how
much pressure on the ECB? Luca Onorante; 8. The macroeconomic impact of
different speeds of debt stabilisation in EMU Campbell Leith and Simon
Wren-Lewis; 9. Fiscal shocks and policy regimes in some OECD countries
Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Serena Lamartina; 10. Monetary and fiscal policy
interactions over the cycle: some empirical evidence V. Anton Muscatelli,
Patrizio Tirelli and Carmine Trecroci; Part III. Labour Markets: 11.
Monetary institutions, monetary union and unionised labour markets: some
recent developments Alex Cukierman; 12. Inflationary performance in a
monetary union with large wage setters Lilia Cavallari; 13. On the
enlargement of currency unions: incentives to join and incentives to reform
Andrew Hughes Hallett and Svend E. Hougaard Jensen; Index.
