All of the attempts to end the euro crisis and to return the Eurozone countries to healthy growth rates of income and …

The creation of the euro and the European Central Bank is a remarkable and unprecedented event in economic and … some advocate the euro despite its economic problems because of its assumed favorable effects on European political …

but also spilled over beyond the euro area. Lower interest rates allowed peripheral countries to run bigger deficits … analyze the geography of international debt flows using multiple data sources and provide evidence that after the euro … euro area …

propose a comprehensive description of how monetary policy affects the euro area economy. We focus mainly on three questions …) if not, is the bank lending channel a likely candidate to complete the story? We find plausible euro-area wide monetary … (relative to consumption) seems to play a larger role in euro area monetary policy transmission than in the U.S. We cannot …

This paper characterizes the transmission mechanism of monetary shocks across countries of the euro area, documents how … this mechanism has changed with the introduction of the euro, and explores some potential explanations. The factor …-augmented VAR (FAVAR) framework used is sufficiently rich to jointly model the euro area dynamics while permitting the transmission …

conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of … contingent Euro forward contracts with value dates at the start of" Stage 3, allows a highly credible preannouncement of the …

. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … pricing models. We use a synthetic Euro excess return along with a Yen excess return to assess country equity sensitivities to …

On the twentieth anniversary of its inception, the euro has yet to expand its role as an international currency. We …, the euro comprises a far smaller share than that of the US dollar. Furthermore, that share has been roughly constant since … 1999. By some measures, the euro plays no larger a role than the Deutschemark and French franc that it replaced. We explore …