Discover how currency unions impact global economies, their historical development, and the critiques they face. Learn about ...

How do states reach agreement on creating or changing international institutions? The dominant theory of international cooperation-institutional theory-specifies how states with shared interests use ...

There are two stories of the birth of the euro: an "immaculate" conception and a worldly one. The latter is, as one would expect, rather more exciting. Although the idea of a European monetary union ...

There has been a significant regionalization of international trade. In 1990, 37 percent of the foreign trade of Canada, Mexico, and the United States was bilateral trade between pairs of those three ...

In 1999, eleven European countries adopted the euro as their common currency (Greece followed in 2001). This followed a long period of gradually tying their national currencies together more tightly ...

New Year’s Day 1999 saw the largest monetary changeover in history. On that date, just 20 years ago, 12 members of the European Union formally adopted a brand-spanking-new currency, the euro. Today ...

Most economists would argue that monetary integration leads to financial integration; in other words, when a set of countries has a common currency, as in the European Monetary Union (EMU), for ...

This course is available on the MSc in European and International Public Policy, MSc in European and International Public Policy (LSE and Bocconi), MSc in European and International Public Policy (LSE ...

Erik Jones is Director of European and Eurasian Studies and Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns ...