The Continuing Evolution of Europe

Thiess Buettner is Professor of Public Finance at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. Wolfgang Ochel was Head of the International Institutional Comparisons Department at the Ifo Institute. Thiess Buettner is Professor of Public Finance at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. Wolfgang Ochel was Head of the International Institutional Comparisons Department at the Ifo Institute. Paul De Grauwe is Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven, the author of The Economics of Monetary Union, and the editor of three previous books in the CESifo Seminar series. Frank Westermann is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Empirical Economic Research at Osnabrueck University, Germany. John Whalley is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Research Associate at NBER, and Coordinator of the Global Economy Group at CESifo. Christian Gollier is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse. Ludger Woessmann is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education and Innovation. Hanushek and Woessmann are coauthors (with Paul E. Peterson) of Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School. Martin Werding is Head of the Department of Social Policy and Labor Markets at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and the editor of Structural Unemployment in Europe: Reasons and Remedies (MIT Press, 2006). Kai A. Konrad is Professor of Economics at Free University of Berlin and Director at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Rick van der Ploeg is Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.