*The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro … financial markets and thickness externalities in the use of the euro as means of payment will be the major factors determining … the importance of the euro as an international currency. As euro securities markets become deeper and more liquid and …

This paper analyses the issues raised by EMU for the relationships between the euro area and the international … financial system. The depreciation of the euro exchange rate since the beginning of EMU has attracted most attention. The paper … that the authorities should take a more active policy stance. The paper assesses the role of the euro as an international …

countries and product categories, in the euro area over the last fifteen years. Our results show that the transmission of … introduction of the euro caused a structural change in exchange rate pass-through. Although some estimated point elasticities have … manufacturing industries. And since the euro was introduced, industries producing differentiated goods have been more likely to …

Countries aspiring to join the euro area—the so-called accession countries—are increasingly binding their economic … activity, external and internal, to the euro-area countries. This phenomenon is observed in the currency invoicing of … degree of euro-denominated invoicing of exports. I find that the exporters in some accession countries might be pricing too …

countries and product categories, in the euro area over the last fifteen years. Our results show that the transmission of … introduction of the euro caused a structural change in exchange rate pass-through. Although some estimated point elasticities have … manufacturing industries. And since the euro was introduced, industries producing differentiated goods have been more likely to …

The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro … financial markets and thickness externalities in the use of the euro as a means of payment will be the major factors determining … the importance of the euro as an international currency. As euro securities markets become deeper and more liquid and …