shock, for example, can affect the exchange rate between the euro and the yen. Since positive US demand shocks have a … greater positive impact on Japanese interest rates than on eurozone rates, the yen appreciates against the euro in response …. Using quarterly data on the U.S., the euro area and Japan from 1981 to 2006, this paper shows that the third …

learned from current monetary unions, especially the euro. Each successive annual edition of this book will be priced in the …

current monetary unions, especially the euro. Each successive annual edition of this book will be priced in the remaining …

Financial market interdependence has been at the epicenter of the crisis in the euro area. This paper tests for the … euro area shocks from country-specific shocks. Financial contagion has been widespread during the crisis in the euro area … between the core and the periphery of the euro area. Global and euro area shocks have been important drivers of sovereign bond …

the euro which has shown the weaknesses of the European institutions and stressed the heterogeneity of member countries …. The global financial crisis struck the euro area very severely because it coincided with the lack of appropriate policy … euro. In the following section it describes the euro crisis and examines the remedies put in place, noting that despite the …

This paper estimates the speed and determinants of euro adoption across Italian provinces by exploiting the natural … experiment in early 2002 when euro and lira dually circulated as legal tender. A unique data set with daily observations on the … net flows of euro banknotes from the branches of the Bank of Italy, province by province, is used. The speed of euro …