's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in …'s financial markets throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The introduction of the euro appears to have indeed played a major role …

-time data. We find that such economic news in the United States, Germany and the euro area have indeed been a driving force … behind daily US dollar - euro/DEM exchange rate developments in the period 1993-2003. The larger importance of US … macroeconomic news is at least partly explained by their earlier release time compared to corresponding German and euro area news …

force in world capital markets, although the importance of EU monetary policy decisions has been increasing and a Euro bloc …

We analyse the first twenty years of the euro both from an economic and an institutional perspective. We find that in …