This paper reviews the performance of the euro area since the euro's launch 20 years ago. It argues that the euro crisis has exposed existential flaws in the euro regime. Intra-area divergences and the corresponding buildup of imbalances had remained unchecked prior to the crisis. As those...

Economic analyses largely ignore Europe's fragmented public sphere, a feature that distinguishes the euro area from other major currency areas.This Policy Contribution identifies how narratives of the crisis developed since 2007, by identifying the key crisis-related topics in articles from four...

We provide a mathematical framework to spot the non-resilient periods of an economy and understand the reason why an economy becomes non-resilient. Our non-resilience indicator spots the distressful periods of sixteen European economies successfully over the course of almost thirty years. To...