This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that … threaten the euro's survival. The crisis in Euroland poses a global "too big to fail" threat, and presents a moral hazard of … perhaps unprecedented scale to the global community. -- Euro ; Monetary Union ; Banking Crisis ; Balance-of-Payments Crisis …

originated from the financial convergence that followed adoption of the euro. …

depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But the crisis that started in Euroland's so-called periphery has … meanwhile reached the core. With pro-euro sentiments dwindling fast across the European Union (EU), the future of the euro … turn out to be a double-edged sword. In case of a euro breakup, swift appreciation of the new deutschmark would abruptly …

This paper reviews the performance of the euro area since the euro's launch 20 years ago. It argues that the euro … crisis has exposed existential flaws in the euro regime. Intra-area divergences and the corresponding buildup of imbalances … unemployment continue to plague euro crisis countries. Its huge current account surplus highlights that the euro currency union …

A technical analysis shows that the doomsayers who support the euro at all costs and those who naively theorize that a … single currency is the root of all evil are both wrong. A euro exit could be a way of getting back to growth, but at the same … the euro; or, in the case of a euro exit, on the quality of the economic policies that are put in place once the country …

The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is … the euro are assessed and found lacking. A "Euro Treasury" scheme operating on a strict rule and specifically designed not … to be a transfer union is proposed here as a condition sine qua non for healing the euro's potentially fatal birth …

Ireland had given up ist own currency in favor of what is essentially a foreign currency - the euro, which is issued by the … European Central Bank (ECB). Every euro issued in Ireland is ultimately convertible, one to one, to an ECB euro. There is … neither the possibility of depreciating the Irish euro nor the possibility of creating ECB euros as necessary to meet demands …

that the ECB may well stand out positively when compared to other important euro-area or national authorities involved in … managing the euro crisis, but that in general the bank did "too little, too late" to prevent the euro area from slipping into … excessively optimistic, and that proposals featuring the central bank as the euro’s savior through even more radical employment of …

common currency - the euro - was at best minimal.This paper aims to show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the crisis in … Europe is the result of an imbalance between core and noncore countries that is inherent in the euro economic model …

. At the same time, these processes could help transition the euro from its current status as the single currency to the …