Begg, Iain


Professor Iain Begg  

Department

Position held

European Institute

Professorial Research Fellow

Experience keywords:

economic and monetary union; policy co-ordination; European social policy; UK economy; EU economy; cohesion in the EU; competitiveness; stability and growth pact; structural funds; Britain & the Euro; fiscal federalism; European employment strategy; EU budget; EMU

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Research interests and experience: principally, the economics of European integration with a focus on policy issues. Recent research projects have covered economic policy under EMU, the social dimension of European integration, the European Employment Strategy, and examination of regional disparities in the EU and their policy implications. Other interests have included work on urban and regional competitiveness.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Britain; EU

Languages:

German [Spoken: Basic]; French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

020 7955 6813

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2007

Begg, Iain (2007) Contested meanings of transparency in central banking. Comparative european politics, 5 (1). pp. 36-52. ISSN 1472-4790

2006

Begg, I. and Mayes, D. and Hodson, D. and Maher, I. (2006) Adjusting to EMU. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, US. ISBN 033399566X

2004

Begg, Iain and Schelkle, Waltraud (2004) Can fiscal policy co-ordination be made to work effectively? Journal of common market studies, 42 (5). pp. 1047-1059. ISSN 0021-9886

Begg, Iain and Schelkle, Waltraud (2004) The pact is dead: long live the pact. National Institute economic review, 189 pp. 70-83. ISSN 0027-9501

Begg, Iain (2004) Future fiscal arrangements of the European Union. Common market law review, 41 (3). pp. 775-794. ISSN 0165-0750

2003

Begg, Iain and Hodson, Dermot and Maher, Imelda (2003) Economic policy coordination in the European Union. National Institute economic review, 183 (1). pp. 66-77. ISSN 0027-9501

Begg, Iain (2003) Complementing EMU: rethinking cohesion policy. Oxford review of economic policy, 19 (1). pp. 161-179. ISSN 1460-2121

2002

Ardy, Brian and Begg, Iain and Schelkle, Waltraud and Torres, Francisco (2002) How will EMU affect cohesion? Intereconomics, 37 (6). pp. 300-314. ISSN 0020-5346

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