The paper provides an analysis of the euro area money and bond markets and their infrastructure since the introduction … of the euro. Significant development in terms of integration took place in both markets in general to a various degree … but apply more generally to euro securities infrastructure, identifies fields where further action is required. This …

In July 2021 the Eurosystem decided to launch the investigation phase of the digital euro project, which aims to … provide euro area citizens with access to central bank money in an increasingly digitalised world. While a digital euro could … of uncertainty surrounding the design of a potential digital euro, its demand and the prevailing environment in which it …

Fund (IMF), was supposed to support the member states of the euro area which had been hit hard by a sovereign debt crisis …. For that purpose, economic adjustment programs were drafted and monitored in order to prevent the break-up of the euro …, the danger of a renewed crisis in the euro area was growing. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) together with the …

This paper assesses the sources of volatility persistence in Euro Area money market interest rates and the existence of …