In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current … imbalances since the euro introduction and thereby the current European debt crisis. Based on this finding we argue that an …

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account … analyse the role of private restructuring and public structural reforms for the urgently needed readjustment of intra-euro … intra-euro area competitiveness. This implies that private restructuring and public reforms are rather than public transfers …

imports of goods. Using data from 2000 to 2009 for 11 euro area countries we utilize a pricing-to-market specification to …

We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our …. One of the key findings is that the eurozone countries in trade with Norway have substantially increased their share of … home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the …

currencies and adopted a new common currency, the euro. Several recent papers argue that the introduction of the euro has led (by … put the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective. We argue that the creation of the EMU was a continuation (or … integration, the euro’s impact on trade disappears. Moreover, a significant part of the trend in European trade integration is …