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 …

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 …

We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption … from expectations of euro adoption will further feed that boom. On the other hand the fact that interest rates have already … converged part way to euro-area levels (and more extensively than in earlier adopters that experienced a sharp fall in rates and …

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 …

institutional framework, such as the creation of the euro by a group of European countries, will realign - after a transition period … illustrate this point, we study the case of the euro and how the party system has evolved in Southern and Northern European …

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 …

these channels in the euro area by combining micro data from the HFCS and the EU-LFS with structural VARs estimated on …

responses in explaining the evolution of Eurozone (EZ) sovereign spreads during the first half of 2020. Focusing on daily … Eurozone CDS spreads, we adopt a multi-stage econometric approach. First, we estimate a multi-factor model for changes in EZ …

United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia …