With the euro's appearance in the world market, the competition between euro and dollar has become a hot-button issue …. The author focuses on the movements of the euro/dollar exchange rate and probes into the determinants of its exchange rate …. Their competition regarding invoicing and reserves are also studied in this paper. -- Exchange rate ; Currency competition …

political issues: an accesible guide.This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of … European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the … establishment of a single currency managed by a central bank. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a central banker who has been involved in the …