Elements in the Economics of European Integration
About the Series
This series will provide authoritative and up-to-date reviews of core topics and recent developments in the field. The editor is particularly interested in contributions addressing structural, policy and political economy issues.
This Elements series welcome proposals that result in state-of-the-art contributions on structural issues such as the following: convergence, economic growth in the Golden Age (1945-1973), economic growth after the oil shock and before the globalization wave, economic growth since 1990, labour mobility, regional policy, structural funds, institutional development in Europe, the Single Market, competition policy, the Eastern Enlargement, the Southern Enlargement, the Scandinavian Enlargement, the European Institutions (European Parliament, Council, Commission, Courts, and Banks), rule of law (ECJ), European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), European Parliament and European Central Bank.
In terms of broadly defined policy issues, the editor is looking forward to proposals and contributions covering issues such as the Banking Union, the Genuine Economic and Monetary Union, financial development, financial integration, the euro, the euro crisis, Brexit, refugees, unemployment, austerity, euro area fiscal architecture, Stability and Growth Pact, the general Budget, agriculture and fisheries policies.
Regarding political economy issues, we will strive to publish state-of-the-art contributions on immigration, integration models (customs unions vs free trade areas), public investment, inequality, trust and populism, international trade, trade policy, Foreign Direct Investment, productivity puzzle, technology policy and innovation in Europe, tax policy and harmonization, the European automobile industry, the European banking industry, green growth and climate change policy.
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About the Series Editor
Nauro F. Campos is Professor of Economics at University College London and Research Professor at ETH-Zürich. His main fields of interest are political economy and European integration. He has previously taught at CERGE-EI (Prague), California (Fullerton), Newcastle, Brunel, Bonn, Paris 1 Sorbonne and Warwick. He was a visiting Fulbright Fellow at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), a Robert McNamara Fellow at The World Bank, and a CBS Fellow at Oxford. He is currently a Research Fellow at IZA-Bonn, a Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University), a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the (Central) Bank of Finland, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC Peer Review College. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, ETH, USC, Bonn, UCL, Stockholm, IMF, World Bank, and the European Commission. From 2009 to 2014, he was seconded as Senior Economic Advisor/SRF to the Chief Economist of the UK’s Department for International Development. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in 1997, where he was lucky enough to learn about institutions from Jeff Nugent and Jim Robinson and (more than) happy to be Dick Easterlin’s RA. He is the editor in chief of Comparative Economic Studies, the journal of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.
Contact the Editor
If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, email n.campos@ucl.ac.uk