Ebook: European Economic and Monetary Integration and the Optimum Currency area Theory

Economic Papers 302| February 2008European Commission
Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Publications
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
E-mail: Ecfin-Info@ec.europa.euIn May 2008, it will be ten years since the final decision to move
to the third and final stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU),
and the decision on which countries would be the first to introduce
the euro. To mark this anniversary, the Commission is undertaking a
strategic review of EMU. This paper constitutes part of the research
that was either conducted or financed by the Commission as source
material for the review.