At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to … even after we control for several possible channels of integration, such as bilateral trade, direct investment positions … between member countries whether or not members have also adopted the Euro. The Euro adoption as well as the anticipation of …

. Just a few years after the global crisis, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis has emerged as the single biggest threat to … countries to global crisis news and euro crisis news. Overall, we find that whereas global crisis news had a consistently … negative effect on returns of equity and bond markets in developing countries, the effect of euro crisis news was more mixed …

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

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 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 … unlikely, I argue here, that one or more members of the euro area will leave in the next ten years; total disintegration of the …

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 …