We analyze the benefits and costs of a non-euro country opting-in to the banking union. The decision to opt-in depends …, non-euro countries participating in the banking union will not be on equal footing with euro area members. Analysis …-capitalized backstops is established it may be optimal for a non-euro country to join the banking union upon the euro adoption. Assessing …

of the euro area. For this purpose, we differentiate between the departure of weak and strong countries, and examine the …

In this paper we present an empirically stable euro area money demand model. Using a sample period until 2009:2 shows … stability of the euro area money demand function. We also compare single equation methods like the ARDL approach, FM-OLS, CCR …

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area countries from access to key inputs, in particular access to finance. This …