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.
Financial Markets in Central and Eastern Europe: Stability and Efficiency
1st Edition
Edited
By Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux
September 25, 2012
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been through a profound transition process for more than a decade now. The financial sectors and markets in the region have been subject to major structural reforms including privatization, liberalization and the acquisition by foreign banks of ...
Russian Path Dependence: A People with a Troubled History
1st Edition
By Stefan Hedlund
September 10, 2012
Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless.Indeed, the reasons for the warped outcomes can actually be traced back...
Deregulation and the Airline Business in Europe: Selected readings
1st Edition
By Sean Barrett
August 15, 2011
Over the past twenty years air fares in Europe have fallen steadily. New entrant airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet have become the largest passenger airlines in Europe, old national airlines have become commercialised and staff productivity of airlines and airports now compete. The reason behind...
Integration and Transition in Europe: The Economic Geography of Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Grzegorz Gorzelak, Gunther Maier, George Petrakos
October 17, 2000
With the harmonization of the EU economies, and issues of EU enlargement and integration with Europe's transition economies topping the political agenda, the economic geography of Europe is being recast. This important volume analyses the spatial implications of the integration-transition process, ...
European Telecommunications Liberalisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kjell A. Eliassen, Marit Sjovaag Nfa, Marit Sjovaag
August 03, 1999
This book examines the process and consequences of telecommunications liberalisation in the context of an ever closer European Union. The creation of a single market for telecommunications and of a wider European single market mirror one another. Telecommunications are also something of a test case...
European Trade Unions: Change and Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Teresa Lawlor, Mike Rigby, Roger Smith
June 21, 1999
This volume:* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging *explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment * includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration * compares ...
Fiscal Federalism in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Amedeo Fossati, Giorgio Panella
June 21, 1999
To what extent should local and regional governments in the European Union be allowed to determine their own fiscal policies?This book explores the core issues of fiscal federalism in the European context. It combines theoretical and empirical analysis in addressing such questions as:* what sort of...
The Enlargement of the European Union: Issues and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Curzon Price, Alice Landau, Richard Whitman
May 05, 1999
This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject. The volume examines how enlargment has evolved and looks at the roles and relations of the different actors - member states, ...
Labour Market Efficiency in the European Union: Employment Protection and Fixed Term Contracts
1st Edition
By Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski, Klaus Schömann
August 07, 1998
The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies have been far from those expected.This study provides a country by country overview of the ...
Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France: The Modernizing State
1st Edition
By Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside
February 20, 1998
This volume brings together well-known scholars from a wide range of disciplines to provide a superb analytical and historical overview of how state policy has affected established economic and labour market systems in France and Britain. The contributors to this book explore some crucial questions...
European Union - European Industrial Relations?: Global Challenge, National Development and Transitional Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer
December 15, 1997
This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of industrial relations, in which the European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance vis-a-vis their national organisations. In particular, the impact of the 'Social Chapter'...
Trans-European Telecommunication Networks: The Challenges for Industrial Policy
1st Edition
By Colin Turner
November 05, 1997
Examining the nature of telecommunication networks and the rationale for the developement of trans-European networks, the study explores the features networks need to exhibit if they are to complement the broad themes of Europe's industrial policy, and demonstrates the economic importance of ...