Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Annamaria Simonazzi, Andrea Ginzburg, Giuseppe Celi, Dario Guarascio

The book provides a new framework for the analysis of the economic crisis that is shaking the countries participating in the European Monetary Union. The analysis goes beyond the short-term, to study the medium and long-term relations between ‘core’ countries (in particular Germany) and Southern…

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Edited by Christian Schweiger, Anna Visvizi

Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been in almost permanent crisis mode. It is witnessing new dimensions of internal differentiation among its member states, and the migration crisis has shown that the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs), in particular, are…

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By Joachim Zweynert

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Edited by Paolo Manasse, Dimitrios Katsikas

In recent years the countries of Southern Europe have undergone, with varying intensity, a serious and prolonged economic crisis. Many have had to resort to bailout agreements, and even the countries that have not entered into financing agreements have come under intense pressure to tackle…

Hardback – 2017-10-01 
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By Philip Whyman

In the wake of the Greek crisis, the future of the EU is the subject of a great deal of debate. This book critically evaluates the current new monetarist model of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe, presenting an alternative post Keynesian (progressive) model, aimed at addressing the current…

Hardback – 2017-09-01 
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Edited by Thierry Blöss, Isabelle Blöss-Widmer, Elena Ambrosetti, Michèle Pagès, Sébastien Oliveau

No society can escape population ageing. This demographic phenomenon has profound social consequences on the lifestyles of individuals and societies. In the light of the accelerated ageing of the Mediterranean area, the analyses which inform this work aim to understand how the age-related policies…

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Edited by Bruno Dallago, Chiara Guglielmetti

The book explores how, to what extent and with what consequences the international crisis of 2007-2008 and the recession which followed have affected European SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in both the well established market economies of the old member countries and in the post-transformation…

Paperback – 2016-12-09
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Ivan T. Berend

The European Union widened and deepened integration when it introduced the Single Market and the common currency, increasing the number of member countries from 12 to 28. After a quarter of a century, the 2008 financial and economic crisis opened a new chapter in the history of European integration…

Hardback – 2016-12-07
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Violaine Delteil, Vassil Nikolaev Kirov

Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations. This book presents…

Hardback – 2016-07-21
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Elena Ambrosetti, Donatella Strangio, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

Migration in the Mediterranean region is a widely debated and much studied topic. This is due to the present refugee crisis, consequences of Arab revolutions, the proximity with emigration and transit countries, but also to the involvement of southern European countries and the mass arrival of…

Hardback – 2016-06-06
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Bruno Dallago, Steven Rosefielde

The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in particular show resilience in the wake of the international crisis with a…

Hardback – 2016-05-17
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Javier Bilbao-Ubillos

This book explores the way in which the financial crisis that began in the US spread to the economy of the European Union. It takes a critical look at the measures adopted by EU institutions in response to that crisis, seeking to explain the rationale behind them, their context, their development…

Paperback – 2016-05-10
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Bruno Dallago, Gert Guri, John McGowan

The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity of problems in the region, revealing the shortcomings of the EU’s architecture. The European Union, perhaps for the first time in its history of more…

Hardback – 2016-05-05
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Jeffrey Sommers, Charles Woolfson

The great financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing global economic and financial turmoil have launched a search for "models" for recovery. The advocates of austerity present the Baltic States as countries that through discipline and sacrifice showed the way out of crisis. They have proposed the "…

Paperback – 2015-12-09
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Franco Mosconi

The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and China owes much of its spectacular economic boom in the last decades to its being the 'world's factory'. Is…

Hardback – 2015-05-27
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga, Mark Smith

The book presents state of the art research on women’s current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work, social provisions (especially care provisions) and the impact of the financial crisis,…

Paperback – 2015-05-22
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Fikret Causevic

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that the global economy has faced in recent years. The book combines rigorous analysis of the issues faced by the region with a constructive approach to…

Hardback – 2015-01-23
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Carlo Cottarelli, Martine Guerguil

Does the European Union need closer fiscal integration, and in particular a stronger fiscal centre, to become more resilient to economic shocks? This book looks at the experience of 13 federal states to help inform the heated debate on this issue. It analyses in detail their practices in devolving…

Hardback – 2014-11-18
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Hardy Hanappi

Recent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have led to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the countries in Europe’s south-eastern region. This new volume from a global set of contributors explores south-east Europe’s present and future direction,…

Hardback – 2014-08-15
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Sima Lieberman

Appraises the turbulent development of the Spanish economy over the last fifty years and places current economic problems in their historical context. The author examines the economic, political and social problems inherited from the Franco era and their evolution into the present. The book…

Paperback – 2014-08-15
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Paschalis A. Arvanitidis

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-accelerating process of urban economic change and the noticeable failure of existing studies to adequately explore the pivotal role that the property…

Hardback – 2014-07-31
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Philip B. Whyman, Mark J. Baimbridge, Andrew Mullen

This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the…

Paperback – 2014-07-04
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Roman Matoušek, Daniel Stavárek

This edited collection assesses the level of financial integration in the European Union (EU) and the differences across the countries and segments of the EU financial system. Progress in financial integration is key to the EU’s economic growth and competitiveness and although it has advanced…

Paperback – 2014-07-04
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Jan Winiecki

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories. The term implies their recent return to European, or more precisely Western civilization, but suggests - given their (forced) communist detour - that there is no single Pan-European…

Paperback – 2014-06-23
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Ronald Schettkat, Jochem Langkau

Despite exporting more good and services than any other country in the world, economic growth in Germany has been slow through the nineties and the early twenty first century with low wage growth, rising unemployment and increasing public deficits. German unemployment was traditionally diagnosed as…

Paperback – 2014-06-23
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Francesco Farina, Roberto Tamborini

Providing readers with a multi-faceted assessment of the implementation of fiscal policies in the euro zone and their macroeconomic effects five years after the inception of the euro, this book, international in perspective and scope, is the first reliable reference source for discussions in this…

Paperback – 2014-06-23
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Susan Mary Senior Nello, Pierpaolo Pierani

The European Union has launched an important debate on the future of the EU budget from 2013. This discussion is to cover all aspects of EU revenue and expenditure, including that on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP has been radically transformed in recent years, but the issue of its…

Paperback – 2014-06-23
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Mark Baimbridge, Philip Whyman

The pace of economic integration amongst European Union (EU) member states has accelerated considerably during the past decade, highlighted by the process of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Many aspects of the EU's apparatus, however, have failed to evolve in order to meets these new challenges.…

Paperback – 2014-06-23
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Gerrit Faber, Jan Orbie

The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).…

Paperback – 2014-05-30
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Armin Steinbach

The European debt crisis has given new impetus to the debate on economic policy coordination. In economic literature, the need for coordination has long been denied based on the view that fiscal, wage and monetary policy actors should work independently. However, the high and persistent degree of…

Hardback – 2014-05-01
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Stefan Collignon, Piero Esposito

This book deals with the relationship between the competitiveness of countries in Europe and the analysis of macroeconomic imbalances. It focuses mainly on a European analysis, along with special studies of the German economy, which is rarely considered to be a cause for the current crisis. The…

Hardback – 2014-01-30
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Willem Molle

The present book sets out to support rational choices in this matter by drawing conclusions from three approaches. The first is a systematic analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The second is an empirical investigation into the consistency of governance between policy areas…

Paperback – 2013-11-11
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Christiane Krieger-Boden, Edgar Morgenroth, George Petrakos

Edited by three European editors and spanning across Europe, this excellent study focuses on the effects of the European integration process on the inter-regional division of labour in both western and Eastern European countries. Using extensive empirical analysis of the changes of regional…

Paperback – 2013-11-11
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been through a profound transition process for more than a decade now. The financial sectors and markets in the region have been subject to major structural reforms including privatization, liberalization and the acquisition by foreign banks of…

Paperback – 2012-10-01
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Stefan Hedlund

Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless.Indeed, the reasons for the warped outcomes can actually be traced back…

Paperback – 2012-09-13
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Joan Costa-Font

With the creation of the Mediterranean partnership and the recent move towards the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean in 2008, a new emphasis is placed on the Mediterranean in the study of European Integration. This book brings together a collection of experts to address this important…

Hardback – 2012-06-14
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Sean Barrett

Over the past twenty years air fares in Europe have fallen steadily. New entrant airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet have become the largest passenger airlines in Europe, old national airlines have become commercialised and staff productivity of airlines and airports now compete. The reason behind…

Paperback – 2011-08-17
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Birgit Hegge

In easily accessible language, this book analyses the impact of Economic and Monetary Union on Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. This overarching and widely researched study explains in a jargon-free manner the mechanisms of EMU and it's likely effect on SMEs. The book then goes…

Hardback – 2002-05-09
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Grzegorz Gorzelak, Gunther Maier, George Petrakos

With the harmonization of the EU economies, and issues of EU enlargement and integration with Europe's transition economies topping the political agenda, the economic geography of Europe is being recast. This important volume analyses the spatial implications of the integration-transition process,…

Hardback – 2000-08-10
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Kjell A. Eliassen, Marit Sjovaag Nfa, Marit Sjovaag

This book examines the process and consequences of telecommunications liberalisation in the context of an ever closer European Union. The creation of a single market for telecommunications and of a wider European single market mirror one another. Telecommunications are also something of a test case…

Hardback – 1999-05-27
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Teresa Lawlor, Mike Rigby, Roger Smith

This volume:* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging *explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment * includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration * compares…

Hardback – 1999-04-29
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Amedeo Fossati, Giorgio Panella

To what extent should local and regional governments in the European Union be allowed to determine their own fiscal policies?This book explores the core issues of fiscal federalism in the European context. It combines theoretical and empirical analysis in addressing such questions as:* what sort of…

Hardback – 1999-04-15
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Victoria Curzon Price, Alice Landau, Richard Whitman

This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject. The volume examines how enlargment has evolved and looks at the roles and relations of the different actors - member states,…

Hardback – 1999-03-25
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski, Klaus Schömann

The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies have been far from those expected.This study provides a country by country overview of the…

Hardback – 1998-07-02
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside

This volume brings together well-known scholars from a wide range of disciplines to provide a superb analytical and historical overview of how state policy has affected established economic and labour market systems in France and Britain. The contributors to this book explore some crucial questions…

Hardback – 1998-01-29
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer

This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of industrial relations, in which the European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance vis-a-vis their national organisations. In particular, the impact of the 'Social Chapter'…

Hardback – 1997-11-06
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

By Colin Turner

Examining the nature of telecommunication networks and the rationale for the developement of trans-European networks, the study explores the features networks need to exhibit if they are to complement the broad themes of Europe's industrial policy, and demonstrates the economic importance of…

Hardback – 1997-10-02
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Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by Peter Cressey, Bryn Jones

Europe's work force is subject to a dual convergence process: from the transnational spread of new management practices and from the political force of European union. Trade union rights, hours of work, working practices and training provisions are all being subjected to these twin pressures. Work…

Hardback – 1995-10-26
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