This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor …

This report describes the monetary and exchange rate policies of the euro area and the euro area stability programs … adjustment in the euro area as a whole and at the disaggregated level …

The three-month Eurepo interest rate, the euro component of the SDR interest rate basket, will be discontinued as of … representative interest rate instrument of the euro area in the SDR interest rate basket since 2006. However, faced with a … secondary market yield curve covering euro area government bonds rated either investment grade or AA and above. In staff's view …

The economic conditions in the euro area have brightened. Executive Directors commended the policy stance of the … European Central Bank. They noted that the exchange rate developments of the euro failed to strengthen the euro area economy …

For the time being—and possibly for a considerable time to come—developments and prospects for the euro area are quite …—employment-friendly wage settlements point to sustained activity in the near term. Moreover, the macroeconomic fundamentals in the euro area …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes euro area policies and discusses the implications of the 2007–08 financial sector … turbulence for real economic activity. It examines the linkages between the financial and real sectors in the euro area. The …

financing of Euro area imbalances. Creditor and debtor positions vis-à-vis the rest of the EU have tended to increase between … increased interdependency among Euro Area economies …