Mon Nov 5 12:21:40 EST 2001
Lars Jonung and J=FCrgen Nautz are organizing a session (two time slots)
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for the 13th World Congress of the International Economic History =
Association to be held in Buenos Aires, July 22nd - July 26th, 2002, on
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the subject of:
CONFLICT POTENTIALS IN MONETARY UNIONS
The creation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has awarded a high =
topicality to issues dealing with monetary unification. There are many =
cases of monetary integration and disintegration in the past. Economic =
history can offer insights to the analysis of the conditions for success
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and failure of monetary integration.
The aim of this session is to focus on these and related issues. We are
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looking for papers using history to analyze inter alia the driving =
forces behind monetary unification and disintegration; the role of =
culture, history, religion, trade, politics, economic ideas etc in these
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processes. Papers examining the explanatory power of theoretical =
approaches to monetary unification will be given high priority.
At present we have commitments from half of dozen scholars dealing with
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the record of monetary unification in inter alia Austria-Hungary, the =
United States, Scandinavia, Portugal and EMU. We are looking for =
contributions examining the experience of other countries or regions as
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well.
Those interested in contributing to this session should send an =
abstract, maximum two pages, no later than November 10th, 2001 to:
Lars Jonung
Research advisor
European Commisson
Directorate-General ECFIN
Rue de la Loi 200 Office BU-1 5/190
B-1049 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32-2-299 4562, fax: +32-2-299 3499
Email: Lars.Jonung at cec.eu.int
Juergen Nautz
Kassel University, Dep. of Law and Social Sciences
D-34109 Kassel
Phone: +49-5609-808682
Email: juergen.nautz at t-online.de