The euro crisis remains unresolved and the euro currency union incomplete and extraordinarily vulnerable. The euro regime's essential flaw and ultimate source of vulnerability is the decoupling of central bank and treasury institutions in the euro currency union. We propose a Euro Treasury...

The severe crises within the Eurozone, which began in 2009, had (and still have) at least two main aspects. One is the problem of sovereign bonds issued by peripheral Euro-States. The other is the fall in the rate of growth of the Eurozone. Among the many proposals and political choices made to...

The author comments on the months of protest by the "yellow jackets" movement, to provide a diagnosis of the reasons of economic malaise in France. It is claimed that France only really started loosing ground relative to Germany since adhering to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). A reform...

The author comments on the months of protest by the "yellow jackets" movement, to provide a diagnosis of the reasons of economic malaise in France. It is claimed that France only really started loosing ground relative to Germany since adhering to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). A reform...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto que la crisis económica ha tenido en las distintas regiones y en los distintos sectores de la economía española durante el periodo 2007-2010, medido a través del empleo y del capital humano. Para tal fin se ha estudiado la evolución del...

The euro crisis remains unresolved and the euro currency union incomplete and extraordinarily vulnerable. The euro regime's essential flaw and ultimate source of vulnerability is the decoupling of central bank and treasury institutions in the euro currency union. We propose a 'Euro Treasury'...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...