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How does the costs/benefits & country characteristics analysis apply to the UK case?

• Labor party: Supports a monetary union to gain control of European economy, concerned with credibility. Problem? UK has seen no set backs despite poor economic performance in Europe causing UK to believe it was smart to stay out of the EMU.
• Conservative party: Want to maintain free-market access and competition w/o burden of EMU. Established sovereignty and do not want EMU to get involved. They still want to have an influence on EU decision making policies.
• The main concern for monetary policy in Europe is how the ECB will trade off inflation increases versus output stabilization or employment creation. Also, how will they accommodate the different performances in different parts of the EU
• In general, the EMU financial markets were subject to different productivity growth than the UK. This is why they did not see the same outcome in 1998 the UK saw in 1992. The argument......

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