Interest Groups And Monetary Integration

Carsten Hefeker is a faculty member of the Department of Economics at the University of Basel.

1 Introduction -- 2 The Economics and the Politics of Exchange Rate Regimes -- 3 Monetary Integration in the XIXth century -- 4 The Endogeneity of Fixed Exchange Rates -- 5 Industrial Interests in Monetary Union: The Banking Industry -- 6 Bureaucratic Interests in Monetary Union: The Bundesbank -- 7 Monetary Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the book and Author.