emerging in the context of EMU and the euro are considered in terms of their impacts on the level of economic activity. At the …

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …

The initial introduction of the euro has, against many expectations, been accompanied by a decline in the value of the … euro (notably vis-à-vis the dollar and sterling). It has also been introduced at a time of high levels of unemployment … the euro, specifically from the policy and institutional arrangements within which the euro is embedded. It is the …

, two of which could qualify as "crises." First, the euro was launched at a time when unemployment levels were high (10 … surround the operation of the euro, notably the objectives of the European Central Bank and the workings of the Stability and …, the introduction of the euro and the associated institutional setting could well serve to exacerbate tendencies toward …

In early 2013 rumors about the Euro-appreciation gained momentum, which may lead to decreases in exports and increases … in imports of the member states. Therefore, we investigate the impact of changes in the nominal Euro exchange rate vis …-à-vis major currencies on export and import performance of nine different Euro-area-countries. To disentangle the "true …