This book analyses the process of regionalisation and plots its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits attributed to it without looking into the...

Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. It also features numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation

The creation of a single monetary currency and a single monetary policy in the euro area has faced extraordinary challenges, among them the design of suitable monetary policy instruments. This book evaluates monetary policy instruments of the Eurosystem against a number of requirements. To do...

The current, unprecedented loss of global biodiversity resulting from anthropogenic interference in the world's ecosystems is affecting human well-being across the globe with increasing severity. This book examines two issues that are at the center of the public discussion on biodiversity. It...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Issue of Climate Change.- 3 The Rise of the Emission Markets -- 4 The Economics of Mitigation Strategies -- 5 The Finance of Environment Investments -- 6 The Emission Price Dynamics -- Bibliography

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. It asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the economy experiences and whether...

Introductory Lecture -- Housing in DSGE Models: Findings and New Directions -- Housing and the Business Cycles -- Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Italian Case -- Cyclical Relationships Between GDP and Housing Market in France: Facts and Factors at Play -- Does Housing Really Lead the Business...

Part I Spotlights on Selected European Countries: Russia -- The Netherlands -- Switzerland -- Finland -- Great Britain -- Italy -- Portugal -- Part II Sampling for Telephone Surveys: Who can be contacted by phone? Lessons from Switzerland -- Sampling Frames for Telephone Surveys in Europe --...