' bursts, sovereign debt defaults, and currency crisis were also contributing factors to the crisis. The convergence of …

. We analyse the convergence of interest rates in four major EMU countries from 1999 to 2007. We suggest to test the … convergence of the interest rates with the full term structure of interest rates with both univariate and multivariate inference …

This article compares today's euro-zone debt crisis, in terms of economic diplomacy, with the earlier crisis in Latin … total failure to reconcile tensions in the euro-zone crisis. Growing imbalances between debtors and creditors led to serious … loss of confidence. Early mistakes over Greece fed contagion throughout the euro-zone. No institution acted as neutral …

the Eurozone. Specifically, the tightening of fiscal rules is not adequate, the reform does not constitute a step forward …

In our analysis, we examine the convergence of all recent ten European Union (EU) members to EU standards. Novel … features of the paper include more complete measures of convergence, in particular fiscal convergence; a broader examination of … inflation convergence with respect to the Maastricht benchmark as well as the European Central Bank’s inflation objective; and …

economic and financial diplomacy can contribute to these countries' economic integration with the eurozone and the EU27 in …