The success of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will depend on the stability of the euro. The monetary policy … inflation targeting rule that includes output. Implications for the euro as a reserve currency are examined in the light of the …

currency area than the Euro Area. More intriguingly, the Euro Area shows striking changes in correlations and responses which … demand shocks to reinforce each other. An implication is that the Euro Area needs vigorous, coordinated regulation of its …

We examine economic convergence among euro area countries on multiple dimensions. While there was nominal convergence … of inflation and interest rates, real convergence of per capita income levels has not occurred among the original euro … currency and has reversed in the wake of the global economic crisis. New euro area members, in contrast, have seen real income …

over the period from 1948 through 2008. We find that, with the introduction of the euro, trade imbalances among euro area … tends to be more balanced when nominal exchange rates are flexible. Intra-euro area imbalances also seem to have become more … persistent with the introduction of the euro, some of which is linked to labor market inflexibility. Reviewing the direction of …

size of euro capital markets and the existing roles of European currencies in international capital markets. The paper also … examines the euro’s impact on international securities markets, including the role of the ECB, the evolution of EMU securities …, as are the broader implications of the introduction of the euro for changes in international capital flows, international …

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

regard to the prices of traded goods in small countries that have not adopted the euro and uses the Bayoumi-Eichengreen OCA … not adopted the euro have increasingly seen a change in the determinants of their traded goods prices. This seems to … contrast with the experience of small countries that adopted the euro. The results need to be interpreted carefully, given the …

increasingly integrated into the euro-zone area and that has a strong macroeconomic track record. We illustrate that neither the …