Fund (IMF), was supposed to support the member states of the euro area which had been hit hard by a sovereign debt crisis …. For that purpose, economic adjustment programs were drafted and monitored in order to prevent the break-up of the euro …, the danger of a renewed crisis in the euro area was growing. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) together with the …

This paper explores the evolution and determinants of public support for the euro since its creation in 1999 until the … end of 2017, thereby covering the pre-crisis experience of the euro, the crisis years and the recent recovery. Using … literature on public support for the euro. First, we find a majority of citizens support the euro in nearly all 19 euro area …

Economic analyses largely ignore Europe's fragmented public sphere, a feature that distinguishes the euro area from … identifying the key crisis-related topics in articles from four opinion-forming newspapers in the largest euro-area countries … considers where blame for the crisis has been laid with the aim of informing the current debate on euro-area governance reform …

that the ECB may well stand out positively when compared to other important euro-area or national authorities involved in … managing the euro crisis, but that in general the bank did "too little, too late" to prevent the euro area from slipping into … excessively optimistic, and that proposals featuring the central bank as the euro’s savior through even more radical employment of …

This paper examines whether the Big Three credit rating agencies actually played as active a role in the Euro Crisis as … the Eurozone crisis in 2009, irrespective of economic and institutional fundamentals. A subsequent analysis of the markup …