, financial, and political arenas. Apart from the eurozone crisis and global monetary policy issues, for nearly two years all else … divergence and political and social discord across member-states. Given the scale and scope of the eurozone crisis, policy and …

This chapter examines the evolution of public support for the euro and public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB … currency, we find that a majority of citizens in every member country of the euro area (EA) support the euro. The economic … crisis in the EA following the Great Recession and the euro crisis led to a slight decline in public support for the euro but …

Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euro-area members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …

After reviewing the main determinants of the current eurozone crisis, this paper discusses the feasibility of … austerity measures in order to abide by their commitments to eurozone institutions and the International Monetary Fund. We show … that the introduction of fiscal currencies would speed up the recovery, without violating the rules of eurozone treaties …

There is no disputing Germany's dominant economic role within the eurozone (EZ) and the broader European Union …

This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that … the euro's survival. The crisis in Euroland poses a global too big to fail threat, and presents a moral hazard of perhaps …

depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But the crisis that started in Euroland's so-called periphery has … meanwhile reached the core. With pro-euro sentiments dwindling fast across the European Union (EU), the future of the euro … turn out to be a double-edged sword. In case of a euro breakup, swift appreciation of the new deutschmark would abruptly …

This paper explores the evolution and determinants of public support for the euro since its creation in 1999 until the … end of 2017, thereby covering the pre-crisis experience of the euro, the crisis years and the recent recovery. Using … public support for the euro. First, we find that a majority of respondents support the euro in nearly all 19 euro area member …