Alesina, Alberto; Ardagna, Silvia; Galasso, Vincenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms … theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of the Euro and structural reforms, we investigate the empirical evidence. We … find that the adoption of the Euro has been associated with an acceleration of the pace of structural reforms in the …