Other/ miscellaneous resources for European Economics

Useful WebLinks

• European Central Bank Monetary Policy
• EU's Trade Policy website
• Monetary Unions in European History
• Big Mac PPP Index: Click on this to see video and explanation. Remember to take this all with a pinch of salt, taking into account non-tradeable goods and services like local property and labour, taxes and subsidies on beef etc.
• The Gold Standard
• EU offer on Agriculture for Doha trade round
• European commissions public finance assessment
• The Stability and Growth Pact
• European Taxation
• Euro & EMU Resources Research, news and data maintained by Giancarlo Corsetti
• European Monetary Union & Economic Outlook by David Cleeton
• The Euro Official site for the currency, run by the European Central Bank.
• European Commission Directorate General on Trade

Professor Shanti Chakravarty at Bangor University has provided an introduction to issues concerning European Trade.

Student recruitment

Why study a module in European Economcs? Short essay by Cillian Ryan for the Economics Network's site for students, StudyingEconomics.

Learning materials on other sites

European Economics links from the Economics Network database