This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that …

We test the hypothesis that the government bond markets in the Eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self … countries in the Eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt to GDP ratios and fiscal space … argue that this can drive member countries of the Eurozone into bad equilibria. We also find evidence that after years of …

The potential mutation of the Sub-Prime banking crisis into a sovereign debt one in Euro area countries is investigated … the end 2009 the probability of observing a Euro area country defaulting is less likely than six month before … self-fulfilling, sovereign debt or currency crises in Euro area in the future …

Since the beginning of 2010, the Euro Area faces a severe sovereign debt crisis, now generally known as the Euro Crisis …. While the Euro Crisis has its origin in Greece, problems have now spread to several other European countries as well … the Euro Crisis, or if the countries' problems are instead due to fundamental problems in the affected economies. Our …

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies … the German government pushed during the Eurozone crisis have been informed by the ordoliberal tradition. In particular …

other countries in the euro area. The estimation of a multivariate, multi-country time series model (specifically a Global … VAR, or GVAR) using quarterly data for the EMU period suggests that euro-denominated government yields are strongly linked …