and pensions across the euro area countries. It concludes that price indexation of public wages is relatively limited in …If the responses of wages - both private and public - and of pensions to an increase in inflation lead to second … indexation. This occasional paper presents an overview of the indexation schemes and other mechanisms for setting public wages …

, the eurozone and beyond. We argue genesis of this crisis lies in the integration negotiations of 1991, ratified in 1992 …. These produced a flawed economic model within the eurozone. Given the seeds of decay were planted at origin; we argue the … solution can be found through a reconstructed eurozone via looser integration, where countries less equipped to deal with the …

The euro area will not have a centralised budget and smoothing of country-specific asymmetric shocks via private …

After reviewing the main determinants of the current Eurozone crisis, this paper discusses the feasibility of … austerity measures in order to abide by their commitments with Eurozone institutions and the IMF. We show that the introduction … of fiscal currencies would speed up the recovery, without violating the rules of Eurozone Treaties. At the same time …

Should we blame the euro for widening of current account deficits in the EMU? In this paper, we employ time … of the euro. Our aim is to assess to what extent the increased current account deficits could be attributed to the single … currency and to the role of other variables, especially fiscal policy and developments of financial sector. We show that euro …

In this paper, sound public finances under the euro means sustainability in the long term instead of short- and medium …-term fiscal discipline. The challenges to sustainability are identified for the four largest euro area member states, and several … resort for a euro area government under liquidity shortage to prevent it from developing into a general financial crisis …

The euro area will not have a centralized budget, and smoothing of country-specific asymmetric shocks via private …