Routledge Studies in the European Economy
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in the European Economy is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Featuring compact and well researched volumes of 150 to 300 pages, the series provides a range of content considering the European economy alongside history, politics, cultural studies, agriculture, education, globalisation, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Gender and the European Labour Market
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga, Mark Smith
May 21, 2015
The book presents state of the art research on women’s current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work, social provisions (especially care provisions) and the impact of the financial crisis, ...
Financial Integration in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Roman Matoušek, Daniel Stavárek
July 03, 2014
This edited collection assesses the level of financial integration in the European Union (EU) and the differences across the countries and segments of the EU financial system. Progress in financial integration is key to the EU’s economic growth and competitiveness and although it has advanced ...
The Political Economy of the European Social Model
1st Edition
By Philip Whyman, Mark Baimbridge, Andrew Mullen
July 03, 2014
This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the...
Competitiveness of New Europe: Papers from the Second Lancut Economic Forum
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Winiecki
June 19, 2014
New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories. The term implies their recent return to European, or more precisely Western civilization, but suggests - given their (forced) communist detour - that there is no single Pan-European...
Economic Policy Proposals for Germany and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald Schettkat, Jochem Langkau
June 19, 2014
Despite exporting more good and services than any other country in the world, economic growth in Germany has been slow through the nineties and the early twenty first century with low wage growth, rising unemployment and increasing public deficits. German unemployment was traditionally diagnosed as...
Fiscal Federalism and European Economic Integration
1st Edition
By Mark Baimbridge, Philip Whyman
June 19, 2014
The pace of economic integration amongst European Union (EU) member states has accelerated considerably during the past decade, highlighted by the process of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Many aspects of the EU's apparatus, however, have failed to evolve in order to meets these new challenges....
International Trade, Consumer Interests and Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Senior Nello, Pierpaolo Pierani
June 19, 2014
The European Union has launched an important debate on the future of the EU budget from 2013. This discussion is to cover all aspects of EU revenue and expenditure, including that on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP has been radically transformed in recent years, but the issue of its ...
Macroeconomic Policy in the European Monetary Union: From the Old to the New Stability and Growth Pact
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Farina, Roberto Tamborini
June 19, 2014
Providing readers with a multi-faceted assessment of the implementation of fiscal policies in the euro zone and their macroeconomic effects five years after the inception of the euro, this book, international in perspective and scope, is the first reliable reference source for discussions in this ...
Beyond Market Access for Economic Development: EU-Africa relations in transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerrit Faber, Jan Orbie
May 30, 2014
The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). ...
Growth and Crisis in the Spanish Economy: 1940-1993
1st Edition
By Sima Lieberman
April 10, 2014
Appraises the turbulent development of the Spanish economy over the last fifty years and places current economic problems in their historical context. The author examines the economic, political and social problems inherited from the Franco era and their evolution into the present. The book ...
European Economic Governance: The quest for consistency and effectiveness
1st Edition
By Willem Molle
November 08, 2013
The present book sets out to support rational choices in this matter by drawing conclusions from three approaches. The first is a systematic analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The second is an empirical investigation into the consistency of governance between policy areas ...
The Impact of European Integration on Regional Structural Change and Cohesion
1st Edition
Edited
By Christiane Krieger-Boden, Edgar Morgenroth, George Petrakos
November 08, 2013
Edited by three European editors and spanning across Europe, this excellent study focuses on the effects of the European integration process on the inter-regional division of labour in both western and Eastern European countries. Using extensive empirical analysis of the changes of regional ...