the Euro adoption has minimal effects on market integration …At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to … equity market integration in Europe. We use a simple and essentially model free measure of bilateral market segmentation: two …

We describe in this essay why the gold standard and the euro are extreme forms of fixed exchange rates, and how these …

The creation of the euro should now be recognized as an experiment that has led to the sovereign debt crisis in several … exist in most Eurozone countries. Although the European Central Bank managed the euro in a way that achieved a low rate of … monetary union. The emergence of these problems just a dozen years after the start of the euro in 1999 was not an accident or …

Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms … remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral … euro's impact on financial integration is primarily driven by eliminating the currency risk. Legislative …

This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary … for a more expansive monetary policy. Such demands might arise in some parts or regions or countries of the euro area, but …

The accession countries to the euro area are increasingly binding their economic activity, external and internal, to … the euro area countries. One aspect of this phenomenon concerns the currency invoicing of international trade transactions … within exporter profitability. These considerations yield country-specific estimates about the degree of euro …

We use 633 days of tweets about the Euro/dollar exchange rate to determine their information content and the …