The euro has had a difficult second decade but the project has still had some important successes. The common currency … is popular among the euro area's citizens, intra-European exchange rate instability has been removed and the ECB has … successfully achieved its primary goal of price stability. The single currency's popularity has made the euro more resilient than …

The introduction of the euro meant that countries with sovereign debt problems could not use monetisation and … devaluation as a way to prevent default. The institutional structures of the euro were also widely thought to prevent a country in … difficulties being bailed out by other euro members or having its sovereign debt purchased by the ECB. Despite these restrictions …

We use quanto credit default swaps to analyze the impact of a credit event in the Euro zone on the Euro-Dollar exchange … credit event if the payment in such an event is denominated in US-Dollar rather than in Euro, because they expect the Euro to … conditional on a credit event of a member of the Euro zone. We find that the implied effect is quite heterogeneous across the …