This paper analyzes the causes of the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and examines the policy alternatives … confronting euro area governments. It suggests that pooling fiscal risks, creating an EU Treasury and issuing jointly-backed euro … advantages and disadvantages of euro bonds and concludes that issuing euro bonds can transform a market that is fragmented along …

economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital flows; the strong interaction between sovereign debt and domestic banking … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …

economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital flows; the strong interaction between sovereign debt and domestic banking … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …

economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital flows; the strong interaction between sovereign debt and domestic banking … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …

This paper overviews the early history of the euro and argues that the euro was sub-optimally designed, without …. Given this constraint, the euro architects designed a single currency in which its irreversibility is achieved through the … to fund large cumulative current account deficits in the first decade of the euro. The euro crisis led EZ policy makers …

The current account has always been a neglected variable in the management of the Euro area and in the assessment of … deficits. It then examines some peculiar features of the growth experience under monetary union in four Euro area countries … discipline. The common monetary policy moreover did nothing to prevent an extraordinary growth of credit that fed the imbalances …

elsewhere. It argues instead that Europe had not only contributed handsomely to the buildup of global imbalances since the 1990s … homemade intra-Euroland and intra-EU imbalances, the simultaneous implosion of which has further aggravated Europe … inherited from Germany's mercantilist past and Bundesbank mythology. Steps toward a fiscal union to back the euro are also …

aggregate debt loads are rendering monetary- and fiscal policy-impaired governments and segments of society insolvent and …

warranted. -- Economic and Monetary Union ; euro ; European Central Bank; global imbalances ; global crisis ; intra … elsewhere. It argues instead that Europe had not only contributed handsomely to the buildup of global imbalances since the 1990s … homemade intra-Euroland and intra-EU imbalances, the simultaneous implosion of which has further aggravated Europe …

The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is … the euro are assessed and found lacking. A "Euro Treasury" scheme operating on a strict rule and specifically designed not … to be a transfer union is proposed here as a condition sine qua non for healing the euro's potentially fatal birth …