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 …

This paper analyses the issue of the dynamics of the TARGET2 system balances during the sovereign debt crisis, when … working as lender of last resort for the euro area member States; indeed, only when the ECB took this responsibility by … launching the Outright Monetary Transactions clear signs of improvement were observed in the sovereign debt crisis. …

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 …

response would provide critical support to the orderly unwinding of the remaining external stock imbalances in the euro area …Over recent years, several euro area countries have registered large and persistent net foreign liabilities. This paper … examines the risks arising from these external stock imbalances, the prospects for their smooth unwinding and the menu of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper compares financial assistance programmes of four euro-area countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus …) and three non-euro-area countries (Hungary, Latvia, and Romania) of the European Union in the aftermath of the 2007 …, such as the size of imbalances, financing, unique cooperation of the IMF and various European facilities, and membership of …