Download or read book Monetary Strategies for Joining the Euro written by György Szapáry and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Now that EU enlargement to the east is a fact, the challenge ahead is how to smooth the accession economies' adoption of the euro. This is not an issue that has exactly benefited from an abundance of clear thinking. Here the volume by Szapáry and von Hagen is a beam of light. If clear analysis is a prelude to consensus, then we have new reason to hope that a sensible policy consensus will follow in short order.' - Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, US the ten countries joining the EU in 2004 will soon be forced to focus on the next big challenge of integration: their adoption of the euro.