Edited by the late Giuseppe Eusepi, formerly Professor of Public Finance,Department of Law and Economics of Productive Activities, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Friedrich Schneider, Professor of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

• Contents: Introduction Part I: The Underside of EU Fiscal Institutions: Budget, Deficit, Debt and Regulation 1. EMU Fiscal Rules: New Answers to Old Questions? 2. Indebtedness and Deficits of the Nations of the European Union 3. Tax Harmonization – Tax Competition Once Again: Who Gives the EU Orchestra the A? 4. The Political Economy of Regulation: A Prolegomenon Part II: Becoming Euro: Internal Stability and International Crises 5. EMU as an Evolutionary Process 6. The Role of International Monetary Institutions after the EMU and the Asian Crises: Some Preliminary Ideas Using Constitutional Economics 7. A Curmudgeon’s View of EMU Part III: Two Issues at Work: Voting and Contracting 8. Towards a More Consistent Design of Parliamentary Democracy and its Consequences for the European Union 9. A Small Country in Europe’s Integration – Generalizing the Political Economy of the Danish Case Index

Edited by the late Giuseppe Eusepi, formerly Professor of Public Finance,Department of Law and Economics of Productive Activities, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Friedrich Schneider, Professor of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

• Contents: Introduction Part I: The Underside of EU Fiscal Institutions: Budget, Deficit, Debt and Regulation 1. EMU Fiscal Rules: New Answers to Old Questions? 2. Indebtedness and Deficits of the Nations of the European Union 3. Tax Harmonization – Tax Competition Once Again: Who Gives the EU Orchestra the A? 4. The Political Economy of Regulation: A Prolegomenon Part II: Becoming Euro: Internal Stability and International Crises 5. EMU as an Evolutionary Process 6. The Role of International Monetary Institutions after the EMU and the Asian Crises: Some Preliminary Ideas Using Constitutional Economics 7. A Curmudgeon’s View of EMU Part III: Two Issues at Work: Voting and Contracting 8. Towards a More Consistent Design of Parliamentary Democracy and its Consequences for the European Union 9. A Small Country in Europe’s Integration – Generalizing the Political Economy of the Danish Case Index

Edited by the late Giuseppe Eusepi, formerly Professor of Public Finance,Department of Law and Economics of Productive Activities, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Friedrich Schneider, Professor of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

• Contents: Introduction Part I: The Underside of EU Fiscal Institutions: Budget, Deficit, Debt and Regulation 1. EMU Fiscal Rules: New Answers to Old Questions? 2. Indebtedness and Deficits of the Nations of the European Union 3. Tax Harmonization – Tax Competition Once Again: Who Gives the EU Orchestra the A? 4. The Political Economy of Regulation: A Prolegomenon Part II: Becoming Euro: Internal Stability and International Crises 5. EMU as an Evolutionary Process 6. The Role of International Monetary Institutions after the EMU and the Asian Crises: Some Preliminary Ideas Using Constitutional Economics 7. A Curmudgeon’s View of EMU Part III: Two Issues at Work: Voting and Contracting 8. Towards a More Consistent Design of Parliamentary Democracy and its Consequences for the European Union 9. A Small Country in Europe’s Integration – Generalizing the Political Economy of the Danish Case Index