The Past, Present and Future of the European Union

This volume collects selected papers on the European Union from the 13th Congress of the International Economic Association held in Lisbon, September 2002. It starts with an address by Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, who sets the tone for the other papers by describing and evaluating two of the greatest accomplishments of the EU: economic and monetary union, and EU enlargement. Other authors deal in detail with various aspects of these and other issues, using a mixture of theoretical, empirical, and other tools. ALBERTO BAGNAI Universite di Roma, Italy ROSELLA BARDAZZI Universite di Firenze, Italy MICHELE BOLDRIN University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St Paul, Minesota., USA MAURIZIO GRASSINI Universite di Firenze, Italy ARJAN LEJOUR The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Research, The Hague, The Netherlands MATTHIUS LUTZ Universite St-Gallen, Switzerland RICHARD NAHUIS The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Research, The Hague, The Netherlands ROMANO PRODI President of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium ROBERT M. STERN University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA ROBERTO TAMBORINI Universite di Trento, Italy NUNO VALRIO Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal