"Contents" [2003] ELECD 3; in Tumpel-Gugerell, Gertrude; Mooslechner, Peter (eds), "Economic Convergence and Divergence in Europe" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003)

Book Title: Economic Convergence and Divergence in Europe

Editor(s): Tumpel-Gugerell, Gertrude; Mooslechner, Peter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843762416

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xi

Introduction: Welcome remarks from the 2001 conference 1
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell

PART I INTRODUCTORY SESSION

1 Past convergence within Europe: core­periphery diversity in
modern economic development 9
Ivan T. Berend
2 Monetary unification and the single market 24
Vítor Gaspar and Francesco Paolo Mongelli

PART II PAST CONVERGENCE WITHIN THE EUROPEAN
UNION

3 The impact of European integration on growth: what can we
learn for EU accession? 55
Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma, Maria Antoinette Dimitz and
Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald
4 Regional convergence in Spain, 1965­95 72
Angel de la Fuente
5 Restructuring industrial areas: lessons in support of regional
convergence in an enlarging Europe 86
Michael Steiner
6 German economic reunification: a special case with general
lessons? 108
Karl-Heinz Paqué
7 Keynote speech: Convergence and divergence ­ theoretical
underpinnings 117
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

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vi Economic convergence and divergence in Europe

PART III ACCESSION COUNTRIES: ACHIEVEMENTS IN
REAL CONVERGENCE

8 Structural change and catching up: the experience of the ten
candidate countries 131
János Gács
9 Restructuring of firms in Central and Eastern Europe 168
Jozef Konings
10 Regional disparities within accession countries 183
Roman Römisch
11 Optimal currency area between the EU and accession
countries: the status quo 209
Jarko Fidrmuc and Iikka Korhonen

PART IV ACCESSION COUNTRIES: HOW TO BALANCE REAL
AND NOMINAL CONVERGENCE? CHALLENGES FOR
MONETARY AND EXCHANGE RATE POLICY

12 Some remarks on `How to balance real and nominal
convergence': an introductory statement ...