second session dealt with the specific problems of the euro area, where insufficient attention to macroeconomic developments …

¿½ memory for cinema prices with questionnaires distributed to moviegoers. The analysis concentrates on the memory of pre-euro … respondents recalled the correct price, and that the average prices recalled were much lower than the actual pre-euro prices and …

We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … the euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption … restructuring more since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream …

The introduction of the euro notes and coins in the first two months of 2002 was followed by a lively debate on the … alleged inflationary effects of the new currency. In Italy, as in the rest of the euro area, survey-based measures signaled a … hypothesis that, after the introduction of the euro notes and coins, consumer prices underwent an increase not recorded by …

Following the introduction of euro banknotes and coins many Italians perceived a much sharper increase in the price …