In this paper we study how the introduction of the euro has affected corporate financing in Europe. We use firm …-level data from eleven euro area countries as well as from a control group of five other European countries spanning the years … 1991–2006. We show that firms from euro area countries that previously had weak currencies have increased both their equity …

We study the financing policies of European public corporations prior to the euro crisis. Using data from 11 euro … countries and a control group of five other European countries over 1991–2006, we show that nonfinancial firms from euro … countries with previously weak currencies considerably increased their debt financing after the introduction of the euro. The …

In this paper we study how the introduction of the euro has affected corporate financing in Europe. We use firm level … data from eleven euro-countries as well as from a control group of five other European countries spanning the years 1991 …-2006. We show that firms from euro-countries that previously had weak currencies have increased both their equity and debt …

the euro which has shown the weaknesses of the European institutions and stressed the heterogeneity of member countries …. The global financial crisis struck the euro area very severely because it coincided with the lack of appropriate policy … euro. In the following section it describes the euro crisis and examines the remedies put in place, noting that despite the …

, but also outside, the euro area. Despite less asymmetry in shock asymmetry since 1999, new statistical tests support the …

This paper first describes the ingredients the present crisis in the euro zone and then evaluates the key options that … was involved as well. I argue that a more fundamental problem is that the euro zone lacks an adjustment mechanism for …

irrevocablemente el tipo de cambio de sus monedas con respecto a una unidad de cuenta denominada euro, y el Banco Central Europeo …, con lo cual el euro reemplazó a las monedas nacionales de los once países participantes. En la actualidad pertenecen al … área euro trece países. Este trabajo estudia la experiencia de los primeros años del euro, es decir, desde el comienzo de …

Seit seiner Einführung am 1. Januar 1999 hat der Euro über ein Viertel seines Außenwertes verloren. Nachdem alle auf …, hat die These, dass die Schwäche darauf beruht, dass es bisher nur einen virtuellen Euro gibt, an Glaubwürdigkeit gewonnen … Finance« zu erklären. Aus der Sicht dieser Theorie könnte die Bargeldeinführung zum Vorteil des Euro ausschlagen, aber mit …

French taxpayer. In the aftermath of the devaluation of the Franc CFA in 1994, and of the peg of the currency to the Euro in …