last two waves of EU enlargement have had on Russia, as well as the role of the euro in Russia. The analysis suggests that … euro by Russian residents and authorities in international transactions has increased, albeit at an uneven pace. While, in … general, the US dollar remains the major foreign currency used by Russian residents, the euro has gained importance as an …

This paper reviews the debate on the longer-term requirements for safeguarding the euro as a currency beyond the state … financial governance in the wake of the euro area crisis goes a long way towards creating the minimum conditions for a more … required' to stabilise the euro area as a whole rather than sharing their sovereignty in common institutions to achieve this …

) indicators of the euro. This framework yields two sets of indicators: (i) one nominal and several real EER indices against a … narrow reference group of euro area trading partners based on different price and cost deflators; and (ii) a nominal and a … industrial and newly industrialised euro area partner countries, while the broad group is made up of 38 trading partners …

between exchange rates and prices, showing that there is at most a moderate decline in exchange rate pass-through for the euro … of euro area exports to exchange rate changes may have declined somewhat as a result of globalisation, reflecting mainly … exchange rates on GDP and the potential role of valuation effects as a transmission channel in the case of the euro area …

Well-functioning economic structures are key for resilient and prospering euro area economies. The global financial and … sovereign debt crises exposed the limited resilience of the euro area's economic structures. Economic growth was masking … underlying weaknesses in several euro area countries. With the inception of the crises, significant efforts have been undertaken …

nominal and real effective exchange rate indices of the euro. Building on the work of Buldorini et al. (2002), it shows how … developments for both the euro area as a whole and individual Member States. While the growing importance of China is reflected in … the updated trade weights of euro effective exchange rates, it appears that the increasing integration of the euro area …

The paper provides an analysis of the euro area money and bond markets and their infrastructure since the introduction … of the euro. Significant development in terms of integration took place in both markets in general to a various degree … but apply more generally to euro securities infrastructure, identifies fields where further action is required. This …

Well-functioning economic structures are key for resilient and prospering euro area economies. The global financial and … sovereign debt crises exposed the limited resilience of the euro area’s economic structures. Economic growth was masking … underlying weaknesses in several euro area countries. With the inception of the crises, significant efforts have been undertaken …

The consensus back in 2008 – ten years after the introduction of the euro – was that the adoption of a common currency … had made a limited impact of around 2% in total on the trade flows of the first wave of euro area countries (Baldwin et al …., 2008). Since then, six more countries have joined the euro area, and firms have internationalised their production …

In order to understand why there is a continuous increase in euro banknote circulation even though the use of cash for … transactions is decreasing in the euro area – a phenomenon known as the paradox of banknotes – the members of the Overseas … workstream of the Eurosystem Research Network on Cash (EURECA) 1 have conducted a study on the foreign demand for euro banknotes …