Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …

During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations … empirical analysis showing that terms-of-trade and saving/investment behaviour seem to have driven the euro exchange rate over … view that towards the end of 2000, the euro was significantly undervalued ... …

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 …

institutional deficiencies share responsibility for the euro's failure, the bank has generally done "too little, too late" with … regard to managing the euro crisis, preventing protracted stagnation, and containing deflation threats. The bank remains … attached to the euro area’s official competitive wage-repression strategy, which is in conflict with the ECB's price stability …

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 …

to the euro. Such strategy aims at containing the differentials between the domestic and the implicit monetary union … to the euro: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The stability tests as well as the volatility dynamics tests suggest …

in the United Kingdom and the euro area, have increased our ability to evaluate the effects that joining monetary union ….K. regime (CPI inflation targeting combined with a floating exchange rate), and adoption of the euro, as monetary policy options … stability under monetary union also diminishes if imports from the euro area are modeled as primarily intermediates instead of …

pragmatic question in this context is: Did delegating monetary policy to the ECB increase stress in the individual euro area … countries? An SVAR analysis reveals that monetary stress has declined more in the euro area than in the euro areas’ doppelganger … euro becoming a dominant currency …