Maria Eugenia Mata and Juergen Nautz are organizing a session with two time slots for the XVIth World Congress of the International Economic History Association to be held in Stellenbosch, South Arica, in July 1012. The subject is:

CONTROL PROBLEMS IN MONETARY UNIONS

The creation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) had awarded a high topicality to issues dealing with monetary unification. Now actual control problems of the European Monetary Union provoke a revitalization of the debate about adequate governance structures of monetary unions. Like ten years ago (on the panel “conflict potentials in monetary unions ) we want to reopen the floor for a history based debate about control problems of monetary unions, especially under the aspect of ethnic different money users. Arrangements of monetary integration are not restricted to the 21th century and not to Europe either. Economic history can offer an independent contribution to the analysis of the conditions of success and the mode of action of different types of monetary integration and practices of governing a monetary union. There are many cases of monetary integration and disintegration in the past. Economic history can offer insights to the analysis of the conditions for success and failure of monetary integration as well as the consequences of the dissolution of a monetary (and economic) integrated area. The aim of this session is to focus on these and related issues. We are looking for papers using history to analyze inter alia the driving forces behind monetary unification and disintegration; the alternative of voice and exit; the alternative of central steering institutions and decentralized financial competences, the role of culture, history, religion, ethnic and national antagonisms, the role of gaps in economic performance, trade, politics, economic ideas etc in these processes. Papers examining the explanatory power of theoretical approaches to governing monetary unios will be given high priority.

Those interested in contributing to this session should send an abstract, maximum two pages, no later than July 26th, 2011 to:

Organizers: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Juergen Nautz, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences Passionsweg 1 D-34414 Warburg / Germany

Prof. Dr. Maria Eugénia Mata Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia NOVA School of Business & Economics Campus de Campolide 1099-032 Lisbon / Portugal memata@fe.unl.pt memata@novasbe.pt http://docentes.fe.unl.pt/~memata/

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