The Cambridge Handbook of European Monetary, Economic and Financial Integration

Part I. The Economic and Monetary Union: Political, Economic and Legal Rationales: 1. Conceptual foundations of economic and monetary union: the economic dimension Barry Eichengreen; 2. Theorizing economic and monetary union – between concepts and pragmatism Amy Verdun; 3. Monetary union and the single currency Harold James; 4. On the misalignment of monetary, economic and political integration in European economic and monetary union Fabian Amtenbrink; 5. Ideas, interests, and power: Germany's complex balancing act in the process of economic and monetary union in Europe Kenneth Dyson; 6. Coping with economic crises through learning by doing: an evolving policy response Iain Begg; 7. The political economy of reinsurance Waltraud Schelkle; 8. Euro crises, the productivity slowdown and the EMU Nauro F. Campos; Part II. The Monetary Dimension: 9. The overburdened monetary policy mandate of the ECB Dariusz Adamski; 10. Government bond buying by the European Central Bank: leadership versus accountability Michele Chang; 11. ECB monetary policies: the increasing importance of communication Jakob de Haan; 12. From market to green economics: impact on monetary and financial policies Dirk Schoenmaker and Hans Stegeman; 13. The politics of monetary union and the democratic legitimacy of the ECB as a strategic actor Sebastian Diessner; 14. How can courts contribute to accountability in EU monetary policy? Ana Bobić and Mark Dawson; Part III. The Economic and Fiscal Dimensions: 15. Reviving the case for policy coordination in EMU Maria Demertzis, Marta Domínguez Jiménez and Nicola Viegi; 16. Ten years of the European semester: from sovereign debt crisis to COVID-19 Crisis Edgars Eihmanis; 17. The EU fiscal rules: principle, policy and reform prospects Menelaos Markakis; 18. National fiscal policy in EMU: insufficient sustainability and stabilisation? Jakob de Haan and Bram Gootjes; 19. The politics of fiscal integration in Eurozone reforms and next generation EU Fabio Wasserfallen; 20. Adjustments in economic crises: the different outcomes of the sovereign debt and pandemic crises in Europe Sergio Fabbrini and Andrea Capati; 21. Designing a permanent EU-wide stabilisation facility Roel Beetsma and George Kopits; 22. Enhancing private and public risk-sharing: lessons from the Literature and Reflections on the Covid-19 crisis Jacopo Cimadomo, Esther Gordo Mora and Alessandra Anna Palazzo; Part IV. Financial Integration: 23. Banking regulation in Europe: from reaction to thinking ahead Katarzyna Parchimowicz; 24. The politics behind the creation of the banking union Elena Ríos Camacho; 25. Failing banks within the banking union at the crossroads: a great step forward – with many loose ends Jens-Hinrich Binder; 26. The banking union: supervision and crisis management Willem Pieter de Groen; 27. The reemergence of market-based finance? The politics of capital markets union Giuseppe Montalbano and Markus Haverland; 28. The European strategy on digital finance and its interplay with capital markets integration in the EU Diego Valiante, Marco Lamandini and David Ramos Muñoz; 29. Regulating crypto and cyberware in the EU Karel Lannoo.