several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The elimination of intra euro-zone exchange rate volatility … resulting from the introduction of the euro is estimated to affect the production structure of MENA economies and shift their … exports from manufacturing to agriculture and services. At the country and industry levels, the impact of the euro is more …

over the period from 1948 through 2008. We find that, with the introduction of the euro, trade imbalances among euro area … tends to be more balanced when nominal exchange rates are flexible. Intra-euro area imbalances also seem to have become more … persistent with the introduction of the euro, some of which is linked to labor market inflexibility. Reviewing the direction of …

size of euro capital markets and the existing roles of European currencies in international capital markets. The paper also … examines the euro’s impact on international securities markets, including the role of the ECB, the evolution of EMU securities …, as are the broader implications of the introduction of the euro for changes in international capital flows, international …

The success of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will depend on the stability of the euro. The monetary policy … inflation targeting rule that includes output. Implications for the euro as a reserve currency are examined in the light of the …

This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor …

regard to the prices of traded goods in small countries that have not adopted the euro and uses the Bayoumi-Eichengreen OCA … not adopted the euro have increasingly seen a change in the determinants of their traded goods prices. This seems to … contrast with the experience of small countries that adopted the euro. The results need to be interpreted carefully, given the …

The paper compares the degree of capital market integration across euro-area countries with that across regions in … capital flows within the euro area that would entail sizable shifts in countries’ equilibrium current accounts …

Using symmetric data sets of 92 weekly return observations before and after the introduction of the euro, the paper …

The Great Recession affected export and import patterns in our sample countries, and these changes, coupled with a more …