Miriam L. Campanella is a lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Turin (from 1995) and holds a Jean Monnet Permanent Course on EMU Policies and Institutions (1999). She has studied at MIT Center for International Studies (1980 86), where she has been a guest several times. In 1997, she held a Fulbright chair at the University of Pittsburgh. With a background in International Politics and International Political Economy, she has contributed to the field of European studies, and has focused on the conflicting rationales of the EMU policies and institutions. She has made the most of strategic interaction analysis in explaining EMU fiscal discipline, ECB ECOFIN interaction and the European Commission agenda setter s prerogatives. Since December 2001, she has been appointed to the Ministry of Economy in Rome, where she has been involved in the EU budget reform. In a recent study, she went to suggest that EU budget reform should accomplish with the standards of a minimalist financial federalism. A study on Tackling the EU Budget Reform: subsidiarity, stabilization function and the allocation of strategic public goods in a multi-tiered financial regime is on course for publication. Sylvester C.W. Eijffinger gained his master s degree in Economics and Econometrics (Cum Laude) at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1983 and doctorate in Economics and Econometrics at the same university in 1986. He is currently Professor of European Financial Economics at the Center for Economic Research and the Department of Economics of Tilburg University (since 2000), Jean Monnet Professor of European Financial and Monetary Integration (chair endowed by the European Commission) and chairman of the Educational Programme, International Economics and Finance, at Tilburg University (both since 1998). Sylvester Eijffinger s research interests and publications are primarily in Monetary Policy. He has been Professor of Monetary Economics (part-time) at the Department of European Economic Studies of the College of Europe (since 1994) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 1998. Chad Damro is currently a Jean Monnet Fellow in the BP Transatlantic Programme at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His viii
ix general research interests focus on economic relations among the advanced industrialized economies, the international political economy of multilateral relations in the World Trade Organization, international regulatory cooperation and transatlantic economic and political relations. He has written on European Union competition policy, EU US competition relations and EU US environmental relations. His current research investigates the role and influence of firms in transatlantic cooperation in individual merger and non-merger cases. Kjell A. Eliassen is a Professor of Public Management and director of the Centre for European and Asian Studies at the Norwegian School of Management BI in Oslo and Professor of European Studies at the Free University in Brussels. He has published 12 books and several articles on European and Asian Affairs. His latest book is European Telecom Liberalisation. He has been a visiting professor at several European, American and Asian universities. During the last three years he has built up a part-time Master of Management programme in Infocom in Asia, in cooperation with leading Asian universities, representing the Norwegian School of management. He has been closely involved with Fudan University in Shangai and the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, both in doing research and in the development of management training programmes. Michele Fratianni is the W. George Pinnell Professor and chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business of Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. He has taught also at the Catholic University of Louvain, the Università Cattolica of Milan, the Università Sapienza of Rome, Marquette University and the Free University of Berlin. He has also been an economics adviser to the European Commission in Brussels, and senior staff economist with the US President s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a recipient of the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for scientific achievements, the Pio Manzú Center Gold Medal, the Scanno prize in economics and the St Vincent prize in economics. He is the managing editor of Open Economies Review, editor of the Ashgate series on Global Finance and author of 21 books and over 100 articles that have appeared in the main economics journals. His latest book is Storia Monetaria d Italia (Monetary History of Italy), published in 2001, and his latest journal articles are The Konstanz Seminar on Monetary Theory and Policy at Thirty, European Journal of Political Economy, September 2001, and International Financial Architecture and International Financial Standards, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 2002. He is currently working on issues of international finance and financial architecture.
x EU economic governance and globalization Edin Mujagic received his master s degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in August 2002. Areas of interest include central banking, monetary economics, European monetary and fiscal policy, international finance and macroeconomics. Catherine B. Monsen is a doctoral fellow at the Norwegian School of Management (NSM), Department of Public Governance. Her main research interests include regulation, European telecommunications policy, strategic management and organization. She holds a master s degree in International Marketing and Strategy from the NSM. Alberta Sbragia received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1974 and wrote her dissertation as a Fulbright scholar on Italian politics. Her teaching and publications have focused on the development of the European Union as well as on comparing US and European public policy, with particular attention to public finance and international environmental policy. Her current work focuses on understanding the development of the European Union as a structure of governance within the analytic framework of comparative federalism. She is the director of the European Union Center and the Center for West European Studies. She is also a UCIS Research Professor of Political Science, a member of numerous editorial boards for American, Canadian and European journals, and participates in the educational activities of The Atlantic Council of the United States. She is the editor of Euro-Politics: Institutions and Policymaking in the New European Community (1992). Martin Staniland is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the effects of liberalization on the EU airline industry and the history of state ownership and privatization in the industry. His publications include What is Political Economy? (1987), Government Birds: the State and Air Transport in Western Europe (forthcoming) and various articles and conference papers on regulation and airline strategy. Nick Sitter is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Governance at the Norwegian School of Management BI, where he teaches EU political economy and public policy. He holds a PhD from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has lectured on EU, East and West European politics and history at the Central European University, the American University, Kingston University and Reading University. Research interests and publications
xi cover EU public policy and regulation, European integration, comparative party systems and Euroscepticism. Mehmet Ugur is Jean Monnet chairholder in the Political Economy of European Integration and program coordinator for MA European Public Policy at the University of Greenwich, London. His research interests include theory of regional integration, globalization integration linkages and external economic relations of the EU.