The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These … scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various … unlikely, I argue here, that one or more members of the euro area will leave in the next ten years; total disintegration of the …

Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have … warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific …

In 1999, the euro was launched on the basis of treaties structured around the new economic orthodoxy that replaced … Keynesianism. The Great Recession, the Euro Crisis and now the Pandemic Crisis, all of them deflationary demand crises which are …

the US, UK, Euro Zone and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries, as a proxy for the measurement … financial crisis (GFC) and Euro Zone crisis (EZC). The intensity of contagion varies depending on its sources. This implies that …

Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have … warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific …