We propose a new and time-varying optimum currency area (OCA) index for the euro area in assessing the evolution of the … autoregression (VAR) model. We argue that the euro area is more appropriate through the lens of empirical OCA properties when the … relative importance of common symmetric shocks is high, but, at the same time, is not overly dispersed across euro area member …

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 …

allocate SDR or ECB to issue Euro, during this perplexed “after-crisis era” …