We analyse the first twenty years of the euro both from an economic and an institutional perspective. We find that in particular during the period since the financial crisis, convergence as measured by a variety of indicators has not improved. Design flaws in the Eurozone institutional...

[...] Wie wird Berlin ihren eigenen Ambitionen gerecht? Wo liegen ihre Stärken, und wo ihre Schwächen? Um Antworten zu diesen Fragen zu finden, analysiert diese Studie die Entwicklung Berlins im Vergleich zu 15 anderen europäischen Hauptstädten und anhand von 35 Indikatoren über die letzten...

We analyse the first twenty years of the euro both from an economic and an institutional perspective. We find that in particular during the period since the financial crisis, convergence as measured by a variety of indicators has not improved. Design flaws in the Eurozone institutional...