Integration into the European Monetary Union (EMU) and adoption of Euro became a specific objective for Eastern … proposed set of indicators and it is estimated Balassa-Samuelson Effect on non-Euro countries. …

economic fundamentals of Euro area member countries have not harmonized. The opposite holds: the Euro core countries - most of … international competitiveness. Although the overall balance of payments for the Euro area at large is almost balanced, internal … disequilibria are skyrocketing and default risk premiums and tensions within the Euro area are rising, thus jeopardizing the …

The Bank of the Euro, that is the European Central Bank, is the topic of this paper, since on January 1999 started the … European Monetary Union that introduced a single currency, the euro, which in turn will be managed by the European Central Bank … European Central Bank, or the Bank of the Euro, will play effectively and efficiently its role and ensure the stability and …

The Swedish referendum in September 2003 on adopting the euro or keeping the domestic currency, the krona, represents a … European integration process heavily influenced the views of the voters towards the euro. …

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the Euro zone is an optimal currency area. The analysis takes into … introduction of the euro there have been significant advancements in fulfilling some of the criteria, but there is still a need of … further progress in terms of wage flexibility, fiscal and political integration. The final conclusion is that Euro zone is not …

One solution to the euro crisis as a debt crisis can be found in stimulating economic growth. The Troika has proposed … wages only will not solve the euro crisis. Only in the case of Greece, Europe’s biggest 'problem child', would a general …

The Taylor rule has been used in many studies in order to analyse the monetary policies. In my work I focus on the Euro …