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Voting requirements, concessions, international side payments and the European Monetary Union

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Krumm, Raimund ; Herz, Bernhard:
Voting requirements, concessions, international side payments and the European Monetary Union.
In: European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 13 (1997) Issue 4 . - pp. 691-703.
ISSN 0176-2680
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0176-2680(97)00030-X

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This paper addresses the question of criteria for selection of EMU members. We identify two factors in the decision process: (1) The costs and benefits which the individual countries attribute to alternative EMU arrangements (`hard-core', medium-sized, all EU members), and (2) the binding institutional restrictions, i.e., the distribution of votes in the European Council and the minimum vote requirements. Within this framework the EU countries are assigned to different groups according to their degree of convergence. Based on stability concessions and side payments these groups decide on the final EMU composition. We show that minimum vote requirements can lead to a suboptimal size of the EMU and can threaten the feasibility of a multi-speed monetary union.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics > Chair Economics I - International Economics and Finance > Chair Economics I - International Economics and Finance - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Herz
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics > Chair Economics I - International Economics and Finance
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Date Deposited: 13 Apr 2015 09:24
Last Modified: 13 Apr 2015 09:24
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/10168