Early Developments

• Grabbe, J. Orlin, History of the Euro

• Buiter, Corsetti and Pesenti (1993), How and why did Europeans get to the euro: the roots of monetary cooperation in Europe 1945-1992, Chaper 2 of Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation: The lessons from the 1992-93 ERM crisis.

• Corsetti, Giancarlo and Paolo Pesenti, The (Past and) Future of European Currencies pdf file March 2000, in Cuadernos de Economía

The 92/93 Crisis back to top

• Buiter, Corsetti and Pesenti (1993), The unfolding of the crisis, Chaper 3 of Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation: The lessons from the 1992-93 ERM crisis.

Introduction of the Euro 1999 back to top

Contemporaneous Evaluations...

• ECB: Constitution of the ESCB History - three stages towards EMU (short and coincise history).

• The role of the euro as a new European currency by Christian Noyer, speech deliveredat the European Institute in New York, 29  September 1999.

• The euro - four weeks after the start Issing, Otmar, London, 28 January 1999.

• EMU and the launch of the euro Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso: EMU and the launch of the euro, Beijing, 2 March 1999.

• From the EMI to the ECB By Wim Duisenberg, Speech May 2002

• Wim Duisenberg: The Eurosystem's monetary policy strategy: The first year's experience, speech at the joint congress of the Federations, Eurofinas and Leaseurope, Paris, 11 October 1999.

• Corsetti, Giancarlo and Paolo Pesenti (1999) Stability, Asymmetry and Discontinuity: the Launch of European Monetary Union preliminary and incomplete draft, prepared for the September 1999 Brookings Panel, forthcoming on Brookings Papers on Economic Activity December 1999.

• Portes, Richard (2002) A Monetary Union in motion: the European Experience CEPR WP 2954

Opting Out back to top

• House of Commons (2000), The Dannish Referendum