List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editors' introduction; Part I. Monetary Policy: 1. The European Central Bank: a view from across the ocean Stephen G. Cecchetti; 2. Which measure of inflation should the ECB target? C. A. Favero; 3. An evaluation of alternative targeting rules for the ECB Pierpaolo Benigno and J. David López-Salido; 4. Inflation modelling in the euro area Fabio C. Bagliano, Roberto Golinelli and Claudio Morana; Part II. Fiscal Policies: 5. The interaction between monetary and fiscal policies in a monetary union: a review of recent literature Roel Beetsma and Xavier Debrun; 6. Independent or coordinated? Monetary and fiscal policy in EMU Luca Lambertini and Riccardo Rovelli; 7. Interaction of fiscal policies in the euro area: how much pressure on the ECB? Luca Onorante; 8. The macroeconomic impact of different speeds of debt stabilisation in EMU Campbell Leith and Simon Wren-Lewis; 9. Fiscal shocks and policy regimes in some OECD countries Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Serena Lamartina; 10. Monetary and fiscal policy interactions over the cycle: some empirical evidence V. Anton Muscatelli, Patrizio Tirelli and Carmine Trecroci; Part III. Labour Markets: 11. Monetary institutions, monetary union and unionised labour markets: some recent developments Alex Cukierman; 12. Inflationary performance in a monetary union with large wage setters Lilia Cavallari; 13. On the enlargement of currency unions: incentives to join and incentives to reform Andrew Hughes Hallett and Svend E. Hougaard Jensen; Index.