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Designing the European Model

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 1-32
  3. Labour Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Welfare to Work

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 35-60
    3. Labour Market Reform in Europe

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 61-81
    4. Pay-setting Systems in Europe: Ongoing Developments and Possible Reforms

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 82-121
    5. Outsourcing

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 122-143
    6. Longer Working Hours — The Beginning of a New Trend?

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 144-174
  4. Macroeconomic Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Acceding Countries: The Road to the Euro

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 229-258
    3. Economic Growth in the European Union

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 259-295
    4. Global Imbalances

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 296-327
  5. Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329
    2. Rethinking Subsidiarity in the EU: Economic Principles

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 331-365
    3. Financial Architecture

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 366-398
    4. Pensions and Children

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 399-446
    5. Prospects for Education Policy in Europe

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 447-468
    6. Mergers and Competition Policy in Europe

      • Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann
      Pages 469-496
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 497-500

About this book

This book examines existing problems in the European economy, focusing on labour markets, including labour market reform and outsourcing, as well as macroeconomic issues, such as macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro area and convergence and divergence in economic growth in the EU.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bank of Finland, Finland

    Seppo Honkapohja

  • EEAG, Germany

    Seppo Honkapohja, Frank Westermann

  • University of Osnabrueck, Germany

    Frank Westermann

About the editors


 
SEPPO HONKAPOHJA is a Professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, UK. He was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published extensively in economics journals and is author of the Book Learning and Expectations in Macroeconomics, with George W. Evans. In 2002-2007 he served as member and Chairman of the European Economic Advisroy Group at CESifo

FRANK WESTERMANN is a Professor of International Economic Policy at the University of Osnabrueck, in Germany. He was previously Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Munich. He is author of Boom-Bust Cycles and Financial Liberalization, with Aaron Tornell. In 2002-2005 he served as the Secretary General of the European Economic Advisroy Group at CESifo

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