inferred from financial data regarding future policies of the European Central Bank …

provision of lender of last resort facilities in the euro zone and the framework for supervising financial institutions. The … Growth Pact have been justified by the threat high debts might pose to the stability of the euro zone's financial markets. I …

the introduction of the common currency in the euro area, there is little evidence that a similar integration process is … taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in …

The paper provides and empirical characterization of fiscal policy in the euro area and in a group of twenty-two OECD … economies over the period from 1970 until 2007. Using the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance we document that policy in the euro … policies. However, the component of the budget due to automatic stabilizers reacts stronger in the euro-area countries than in …

of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro … of the euro was political, not economic and that the creation of the euro could lead to increased conflict within Europe …

This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms … theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of the Euro and structural reforms, we investigate the empirical evidence. We … find that the adoption of the Euro has been associated with an acceleration of the pace of structural reforms in the …

The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These … scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various … member states led politicians to blame the European Central Bank for disappointing economic performance. Highly …

This paper tests whether trade in new goods is partially responsible for the pro-trade effects of the euro and provides …-firms trade model in a multi-country environment to structure our empirical model, we find that the euro had a positive impact on … the pro-trade effect of euro-usage on non-Euroland nations trading with euro-users. We confirmed the absence of trade …

countries and product categories, in the euro area over the last fifteen years. Our results show that the transmission of … the introduction of the euro caused a structural change in this transmission. Although estimated point elasticities seem … to have declined since the introduction of the euro, we find little evidence of a structural break in the transmission of …

All of the attempts to end the euro crisis and to return the Eurozone countries to healthy growth rates of income and … Eurozone countries. I describe some of these fiscal options after reviewing the history of failed attempts and the options that …