This dissertation is a collection of three essays dealing with selected problems of the Euro Area during its most …

institutional deficiencies share responsibility for the euro's failure, the bank has generally done "too little, too late" with … regard to managing the euro crisis, preventing protracted stagnation, and containing deflation threats. The bank remains … attached to the euro area’s official competitive wage-repression strategy, which is in conflict with the ECB's price stability …

the Euro area monetary and fiscal systems by focusing markets and public attention on the core cause of the overall Euro … crisis, the insolvency of the Euro area member-states model of debt financing of public and private expenditure and … investment. Hence, any repair of the system will require addressing the twin malaises of the Euro area model of economic …