This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor …

increasingly integrated into the euro-zone area and that has a strong macroeconomic track record. We illustrate that neither the …

, as conveyed by an implied risk-neutral probability distribution, from option prices for the dollar-euro exchange rate …

regard to the prices of traded goods in small countries that have not adopted the euro and uses the Bayoumi-Eichengreen OCA … not adopted the euro have increasingly seen a change in the determinants of their traded goods prices. This seems to … contrast with the experience of small countries that adopted the euro. The results need to be interpreted carefully, given the …

of the next major step for these countries in their move toward full integration with the EU-adoption of the euro …. Seeking to consider the opportunities and challenges of euro adoption, the papers in this volume--by a noted group of country … dimensions of euro adoption in these eight new EU members--how they should prepare, whether an early move is optimal, and what …

US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power …