The launching of the EURO not only affects the members of EURO-Land, but it also affects the potential new member … Central Africa?s single-currency zone. These countries will adopt the EURO without belonging to the Union. And if Sweden …, Denmark, Greece and Britain join the single currency, then their overseas territories would automatically adopt the EURO too …

This paper provides new empirical evidence of the "euro effect" on bilateral trade by allowing for a heterogeneous … show a statistically insignificant euro's effect on bilateral exports. However, disaggregating this effect, we report a … relatively large euro's effect on bilateral trade for the "new" EMU countries. We also and no evidence of trade diversion, thus …

pt. 1. The stability merits of the euro -- pt. 2. A case for rapid euro adoption? -- pt. 3. The euro area- a shelter …? Euro assets- a safe haven? -- pt. 4. Lessons- from euro area divergences, and from the crisis -- pt. 5. Post …