This textbook explains the notion of monetary union, highlighting the key concepts, procedures, and challenges involved. The book is organized in three parts. In the first part, the reader learns about monetary issues, like definitions and typology of monetary unions, rationale of monetary unions, monetary policy, monetary institutional matters. The second part is devoted to fiscal matters and the interplay between fiscal and monetary policies, such as deficits, transfers, public debt sustainability issues, fiscal policy, policy mix. The last part focuses on other distinct but related issues, necessary to complete the union: banking and fiscal unions, structural adjustments in a monetary union. It ends with a chapter on the fate of monetary unions: how they develop, mature and sometimes dissolve.

The book addresses students at undergraduate and graduate level, interested in a better understanding of international macroeconomics and monetary unions, as well as policy-makers, practitioners and economists in central banks, ministries of economics, economic institutions and banks.


About the Author
Hubert Kempf is full professor at l' Ecole normale superieure Paris-Saclay (France) and scientific advisor at the NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow (Russia). He is a CESifo fellow. Kempf is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a former President of the French Economic Association. He is the author of several books and has published extensively in scientific reviews.


Book Information
ISBN 9783030932343
Author Hubert Kempf
Format Paperback
Page Count 443
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG