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We argue that the various proposals aimed at stabilizing the Eurozone using financial engineering do not eliminate the inherent instability of the sovereign bond markets in a monetary union. During crises, this instability becomes systemic and no amount of financial engineering can stabilize an...
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I provide a structured comparison of the nineteenth-century classical gold standard and the Euro, basing my analysis …, there is nothing contingent about Euro-area membership. Finally, the gold standard operated in a simpler political setting …
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