This paper reviews the performance of the euro area since the euro's launch 20 years ago. It argues that the euro … crisis has exposed existential flaws in the euro regime. Intra-area divergences and the corresponding buildup of imbalances … unemployment continue to plague euro crisis countries. Its huge current account surplus highlights that the euro currency union …

This paper examines the evolution of public support for the euro since its introduction as a virtual currency in 1999 … popularity o f the euro. We find that a majority of citizens support the e uro in each individual member country of the e uro a … econometric work demonstrates that unemployment is a key driver of support behind the euro. Given these developments, w e discuss …

that the ECB may well stand out positively when compared to other important euro-area or national authorities involved in … managing the euro crisis, but that in general the bank did "too little, too late" to prevent the euro area from slipping into … excessively optimistic, and that proposals featuring the central bank as the euro’s savior through even more radical employment of …

Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …

effects. The announcement of an ECB euro liquidity line decreases the premium paid by foreign agents to borrow euros in FX … equity prices increase by around 1.75% in euro area countries highly exposed via banking linkages to countries whose …

difference-in-differences strategy to show that the announcement of ECB euro liquidity lines has a direct positive signalling … positive spillbacks to the euro area since domestic bank equity prices increase by 6.7% in euro area countries highly exposed …