inherited from Germany’s mercantilist past and Bundesbank mythology. Steps toward a fiscal union to back the euro are also … warranted. -- Economic and Monetary Union ; euro ; European Central Bank; global imbalances ; global crisis ; intra …

default. It is argued that the current crisis in Europe illustrates why the euro is not a real contender for hegemony in the … near future. -- Dollar ; Euro ; International Currency …

This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that … threaten the euro's survival. The crisis in Euroland poses a global "too big to fail" threat, and presents a moral hazard of … perhaps unprecedented scale to the global community. -- Euro ; Monetary Union ; Banking Crisis ; Balance-of-Payments Crisis …

Ireland had given up ist own currency in favor of what is essentially a foreign currency - the euro, which is issued by the … European Central Bank (ECB). Every euro issued in Ireland is ultimately convertible, one to one, to an ECB euro. There is … neither the possibility of depreciating the Irish euro nor the possibility of creating ECB euros as necessary to meet demands …

The euro crisis remains unresolved and the euro currency union incomplete and extraordinarily vulnerable. The euro … the euro currency union. We propose a “Euro Treasury” scheme to properly fix the regime and resolve the euro crisis. This … scheme would establish a rudimentary fiscal union that is not a transfer union. The core idea is to create a Euro Treasury as …

originated from the financial convergence that followed adoption of the euro. …

that the ECB may well stand out positively when compared to other important euro-area or national authorities involved in … managing the euro crisis, but that in general the bank did "too little, too late" to prevent the euro area from slipping into … excessively optimistic, and that proposals featuring the central bank as the euro’s savior through even more radical employment of …

, this paper analyzes how the resulting euro contradiction conditioned the ongoing euro crisis as well as current strategies … to resolve it. While Germany generally prevailed in hammering out the design of the euro policy regime, the German … misunderstanding has made Germany the main culprit in the euro crisis, but it has yet to face the full consequences of its actions …

Monetary Union (EMU), focusing on the German intellectual and historical traditions behind the euro policy regime and its … the euro's guardian of stability, and ultimately the euro itself. Essentially, the national success of the Bundesbank … general perception in Germany today is that the euro crisis has confirmed the soundness of the key "stability …

common currency - the euro - was at best minimal.This paper aims to show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the crisis in … Europe is the result of an imbalance between core and noncore countries that is inherent in the euro economic model …