In this paper we study how the introduction of the euro has affected corporate financing in Europe. We use firm level … data from eleven euro-countries as well as from a control group of five other European countries spanning the years 1991 …-2006. We show that firms from euro-countries that previously had weak currencies have increased both their equity and debt …

We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity … since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream and …

This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis … fiscal distress, and inquires how the regulation of banks' sovereign exposures in the euro area should be changed to mitigate … new regulatory framework of the euro-area "banking union" can be expected to mitigate excessive forbearance and facilitate …

, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the …

This article examines the effect of political knowledge on support for the euro and voting on the euro issue in the … 2001 and 2005 UK general elections. Political knowledge increased support for the euro in 2001 but had no effect in 2005 … and it conditioned the effect of the euro issue on vote choice in both elections. The effect of the euro issue on voting …