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 ...

As the Fed battles political interference, the constitutional independence of the European Central Bank stands as a vital safeguard ...

Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 39, No. 2 (June 2024), pp. 454-482 (29 pages) This study investigated the possibility of expanding the GCC monetary union to other MENA countries using cluster ...

(Reuters) -Europe's economic and monetary union, the most visible product of which is the euro, is an unprecedented effort at creating a shared currency backed by its own financial architecture. It is ...

This essay assesses the need for deeper integration in the European Union, while questioning where the current European leadership has the vision to implement such reforms in the wake of the euro ...

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 ...