This paper investigates whether Europe is converging towards becoming an optimum currency area. To this end, a … and the money market over time. Inferences on historical convergence are drawn for the EU15, the 11 countries originally … results indicate significant convergence across the EU.  …

The euro’s introduction initially confronts a firm with a currency changeover problem affecting its accounting and … accounting subsystems from the national currency to the euro. Yet, with barely six months remaining until national currencies … currencies constitutes just a small part of a far larger, complex set of related problems. That is because the common currency …

‐term competitiveness of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Following the introduction of the Single European Currency (referred to …