Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel sagte am 10. Mai, nachdem die EU-Finanzminister einen gigantischen Rettungsschirm für den Euro beschlossen hatten: "Wir schützen das Geld der Menschen in Deutschland." Die Datenlage zeigt allerdings nicht, dass der Euro tatsächlich in großer Gefahr war. Die...

After presenting the institutional construction during the pre-accession and post-accession to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the exchange rate mechanisms (ERM) in several countries and the convergence criteria, we go on with a brief analysis of the way the CEE countries cope with the...

Aim/purpose - The aim of this paper is to present two cases of crises in Greece and Italy and to evaluate the shadow exchange rates of hypothetical new currencies (re)introduced after Grexit and Italexit. Design/methodology/approach - Both shadow exchange rates are estimated using speculative...