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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its virtual existence to changes in the demand for deutschmarks in eastern … the dollar and the weakness of the euro reflect the prosperity of the US and the weakness of the European economy on both …