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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is … inherently flawed. Recent reforms have failed to turn the dysfunctional euro regime into a viable one. The investigation is … the euro are assessed and found lacking. A Euro Treasury scheme operating on a strict rule and specifically designed not …

institutional deficiencies share responsibility for the euro's failure, the bank has generally done "too little, too late" with … regard to managing the euro crisis, preventing protracted stagnation, and containing deflation threats. The bank remains … attached to the euro area’s official competitive wage-repression strategy, which is in conflict with the ECB's price stability …

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 …