What difference does Euro membership make to stabilization? The political economy of international monetary systems revisited

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 508-534

  Mabbett, Deborah ^a   Schelkle, Waltraud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Euro crisis; German hegemony; Greece; Hungary; international monetary system; Latvia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933179199     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2014.916625     Document Type: Article

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