present diverse arguments and, where possible, explore the incipient empirical literature focussing on the euro area. Our …

Maastricht Treaty criteria and to accept a priori definite course of resigning from national currency for euro currency. After … the fulfillment of required adjustment periods of euro adoption, the European law forces the total departure from national … to introduce the euro, when the country is in good economic condition, confirmed by the fulfillment of nominal …

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the … growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality. Finally, the important role of mid-left parties is highlighted. …

Microfoundations of the euro's effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, the speed and the size of adjustment in … at the sector level. We find that, due to falling trade costs, trade within the euro area increases between the years … 2000 and 2003 by 10 to 20 percent compared with trade between European countries that are not members of the euro area …

Microfoundations of the euro's effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, the speed and the size of adjustment in … at the sector level. We find that, due to falling trade costs, trade within the euro area increases between the years … 2000 and 2003 by 10 to 20 percent compared with trade between European countries that are not members of the euro area …

This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …

We propose a new and time-varying optimum currency area (OCA) index for the euro area in assessing the evolution of the … autoregression (VAR) model. We argue that the euro area is more appropriate through the lens of empirical OCA properties when the … relative importance of common symmetric shocks is high, but, at the same time, is not overly dispersed across euro area member …

economic fundamentals of Euro area member countries have not harmonized. The opposite holds: the Euro core countries – most of …. However, Mediterranean countries – particularly Greece, but also Spain, Portugal, and Italy – have dramatically lost … international competitiveness.Although the overall balance of payments for the Euro area at large is almost balanced, internal …