those of bailouts. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Euro depreciates significantly against the Yen and US Dollar … following general risk shocks in the euro area and only to a small extent following bailout shocks. The Pound Sterling is not … affected by any of these shocks. The Euro variability is, from the EMU perspective, mainly driven by shocks stemming from large …

dispersion of current account balances in the Euro Area. We investigate this hypothesis quantitatively. We develop an open …