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Enlargement poses a number of institutional challenges to the European Union: institutions originally established for six member states need to be adapted to cope with an EU of between 20 and 30 members. This poses questions both about their size, and about the procedures for taking decisions. The eleventh Monitoring European Integration report will evaluate the reforms adopted at the Nice summit and highlight a number of structural and instit...

This report calls on the WTO to create an action plan for steering the world back toward the multilateralist ideal that has guided the world trade system since 1947. It makes the case that the WTO and its 151 member countries can find a way to restrain the malign elements of regional deals-while using their benign elements as a springboard toward a new multilateral arrangement. The report shows that regional deals inject both inefficiency and ...

As the European Monetary Union begins to add member nations, central bank governors of each new member will become entitled to a vote on the European Central Bank's key decision making body, the Governing Council. This report argues that the substantial increase of voters in the Governing Council will adversely affect the efficiency of the Bank's decisionmaking structure.

The euro can be seen as the worlds largest economic policy experiment. Six years ago, European nations accounting for 20% of world output, 30% of world trade, and 300 million people found themselves using the same currency. Given the importance that monetary regimes have on the course of human events, this should have had effects all across the boardaffecting everything from unions wage bargaining to educational exchanges and corporate investm...

Powerful political and economic forces are driving a rapid integration of post-communist Europe, yet short-term political considerations have produced piecemeal trade arrangements instead of a coherent structure. Individual agreements have been signed linking the European Union to several Central and East European countries (CEECs), EFTA to several CEECs, a few CEECs to each other and EU to EFTA. Although the agreements have many similar featu...

Dynamic Issues in Commercial Policy Analysis focuses on the explicit specification of dynamic mechanisms in trade models.

The Euro has been in operation since January 1999 - just long enough to provide sufficient data for a first look at its actual performance. In contrast to the many other euro-studies that rely on forecasting and extrapolation from historical experiences, the eight studies in this book use post-1999 data to provide a first look at how the Euro is actually affecting trade, financial markets, macroeconomic policy making and Europe's economic perf...

Dynamic Issues in Commercial Policy Analysis focuses on the explicit specification of dynamic mechanisms in trade models.