in the United Kingdom and the euro area, have increased our ability to evaluate the effects that joining monetary union ….K. regime (CPI inflation targeting combined with a floating exchange rate), and adoption of the euro, as monetary policy options … stability under monetary union also diminishes if imports from the euro area are modeled as primarily intermediates instead of …

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 …

We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity … since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream and …

Using tick-by-tick data of the dollar-yen and euro-dollar exchange rates recorded in the actual transaction platform, a …

The euro has arisen as a credible eventual competitor to the dollar as leading international currency, much as the … euro over the period 1999-2007. This paper updates calculations regarding possible scenarios for the future. We exclude the … the de facto financial center of the euro, more so than Frankfurt. We also assume that the dollar continues in the future …

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 …

Foreign exchange reserve accumulation has risen dramatically in recent years. The introduction of the euro, greater … currencies. Making various assumptions on expected currency returns and the variance-covariance structure, we assess how the euro …-free) currency. (ii) The optimum portfolios show a much lower weight for the euro than is observed. This suggests that the euro may …