How did Europe get to monetary union in 1999 and how will EMU work out? Are the member countries starting in good shape and is the European Central Bank going to be a success? Should the UK enter EMU too, and if so when and how? This book provides a stocktaking of the process of European monetary integration as of early 1999 - at the start of European Monetary Union and twenty years after the creation of the European Monetary System. Based upon the first academic conference on the subject since the start of EMU by the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group and bringing together leading academics, researchers and policy-makers - including members of the European Central Bank - the book assesses recent experiences and evaluates likely future developments.

This volume offers something for almost any Europeanist interested in the resurgence of the monetary side of integration. ECSA Review

CHRISTOPHER ALLSOPP Oxford University YANUS AKSOY Catholic University of Leuven IGNAZIO ANGELONI European Central Bank MICHAEL ARTIS European University Institute and CEPR STEPHEN BAZEN Universite Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV JOE BISIGNANO Bank for International Settlements VINCENZO CHIORAZZO Crediop and Centro Europa Ricerche DAVID COBHAM University of St Andrews JOHN CURTICE University of Strathclyde HANS DEWACHTER Catholic University of Leuven PAUL DE GRAUWE Catholic University of Leuven JOHN DRIFFILL University of Southampton VITOR GASPAR European Central Bank ERIC GIRARDIN Universite Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV CHARLES GOODHART London School of Economics and Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee ANDREW HALDANE Bank of England PAUL MIZEN University of Nottingham and C.E.P.R ROBERT PRINGLE Central Banking Publications LUIGI SPAVENTA University of Rome La Sapienza, C.O.N.S.O.B and C.E.P.R PHILIP STEPHENS Financial Times ROLF STRAUCH Z.E.I, University of Bonn ALAN SUTHERLAND Universityof York ORESTE TRISTANI European Central Bank MATTHEW TURNER Central Banking Publications JURGEN VON HAGEN Z.E.I, University of Bonn, Indiana University and C.E.P.R. MARTIN WEALE National Institute of Economics and Social Research GEORGE ZIS Manchester Metropolitan University.