Incomplete monetary union and Europe's current crisis -- From order to disorder : how monetary union changed national labor markets -- Monetary regimes, sectoral wage relations and the current account crisis in the EMU south : empirical evidence -- National central banks promoting inflation...

What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis.

Recent literature on the European debt crisis emphasizes that rising external trade and lending imbalances between the European Monetary Union's (EMU) Northern and Southern member states served as a crucial determinant behind speculative divergence between these two regions. However, these...