Conventional wisdom suggests that the European debt crisis, which has thus far led to severe adjustment programs … common currency - the euro - was at best minimal.This paper aims to show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the crisis in … Europe is the result of an imbalance between core and noncore countries that is inherent in the euro economic model …

After reviewing the main determinants of the current eurozone crisis, this paper discusses the feasibility of … austerity measures in order to abide by their commitments to eurozone institutions and the International Monetary Fund. We show … that the introduction of fiscal currencies would speed up the recovery, without violating the rules of eurozone treaties …