, Eurozone societies. A review of EMU's origins and first years of EMU would thus be remiss without national case studies. France …

Eurozone members are supposedly constrained by the fiscal caps of the Stability and Growth Pact. Yet ever since the …. We find that governments’ forecasts are biased in the optimistic direction, especially during booms. Eurozone governments … among eurozone countries that have adopted certain rules at the national level, particularly creating an independent fiscal …

EMU's design is seriously flawed. Monetary union was established without political union, creating a single eurozone …. Its exceptionally independent central bank, the ECB, sets monetary policy for the eurozone economy as a whole, but it has … no institutions for setting a eurozone-wide fiscal policy, and hence no democratically accountable structure for setting …

Purpose – This study aims to statistically investigate the place of the eurozone countries in the framework of the … eventual discrepancies in the performing of the eurozone from the most advanced non-eurozone countries by the weaknesses of … some eurozone members. The discriminant analysis as an investigation tool has been chosen as an as unbiased as possible …

joining the Eurozone are presented with special emphasis on the Polish perspective. The need for fiscal reforms and concerns … regarding Eurozone institutions are addressed. …