This paper analyses the EU's response to the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. It examines the background to the crisis … inside and outside the Eurozone. Consequently, the paper concludes that these fault lines will characterize the future of …

European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis … covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I first re-confirm that the crisis led to the reallocation of sovereign …

We introduce a method for measuring default risk connectedness of euro zone sovereign states using credit default swap …

euro into a viable European currency. First, divergences in competitiveness positions must be prevented in future. Second …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 …

After reviewing the main determinants of the current Eurozone crisis, this paper discusses the feasibility of … austerity measures in order to abide by their commitments with Eurozone institutions and the IMF. We show that the introduction … of fiscal currencies would speed up the recovery, without violating the rules of Eurozone Treaties. At the same time …

This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of … French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011 …-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade announcements negatively affected the value of the Euro currency and …