We investigate how adopting the euro affects exports using firm-level data from Slovakia and Estonia. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on countries that adopted the euro individually and had different exchange rate regimes prior to doing so. Following the New Trade Theory we consider...

Beginning in 1992, Greece's economy was at least partially managed consistent with European Union (EU) membership. Greece joined the EU on January 1, 2001, adopting the Euro at a conversion rate of 340.75 Drachmas per Euro.From 1995-2000, Greece had 3.2% average GDP growth, 5.5% consumer...

Many Europeans today ask why the European Community chose the bold strategy of pursuing an Economic and Monetary Union at a time when a number of political and economic issues had not yet been resolved. Many economists like to think that the economic case for EMU was weak and that the decision...

Most technocrats argue that creating the euro was a way of forcing the pace of political integration, since monetary union is not possible without political union. We disagree and instead put forward four minimal conditions for the survival of the euro. Political integration in Europe has its...

Using the introduction of the euro as a natural experiment, we provide economy-wide evidence for money illusion based on declared donations from German administrative income tax data. Our results suggest a magnitude of the money illusion effect between 2.4% and 7.6%. Compared to previous studies...

This paper looks at the Slovak experience with euro adoption from the point of view of perceived versus actual inflation and with a focus on a specific set of non-tradable prices. It examines whether Slovak consumers experienced or perceived (or both) an unusual price jump at the time of euro...

This paper studies firms' price-setting decision during a currency changeover. Buyers' difficulties with the new nominal price level may create incentives to raise prices temporarily but doing so comes at the risk of damaging a seller's standing as a fair trader. We model firms' trade-off and...

Manski's partial identification allows less restrictive, therefore, more credible assumptions than the assumption of random treatment assignment to solve the evaluation problem. In this article the theory of partial identification is applied to the welfare effect of the euro cash changeover....

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the specific impact of the introduction of the euro on Italian consumer inflation that can be attributed solely to the rounding of prices to figures that are "attractive" in euro. The empirical analysis is based on a large sub-set of prices used by Istat...

This paper studies the impact of the mental money conversion process on price perception in Austria (1 euro = 13.76 ATS) and France (1 euro = 6.56 francs). Money conversion has been implicated and investigated within the framework of 2 different reference price conceptions. In addition, the...

Manski's partial identification allows less restrictive, therefore, more credible assumptions than the assumption of random treatment assignment to solve the evaluation problem. In this article the theory of partial identification is applied to the welfare effect of the euro cash changeover....

Die Situation der griechischen Wirtschaft spitzt sich aktuell dramatisch zu. Eine Besserung der Lage setzt einen wettbewerbsfähigen Exportsektor voraus. Dabei wäre die Wiedereinführung der Drachme eine Option, die der Autor allerdings für schwer durchführbar hält.

The study aims to revisit some of the macroeconomic issues related to Hungary's eurozone-accession. The government postponed euro-adoption until 2020 without any explanation, which is one of the motivations of our analysis. We review the arguments formulated in 2000-2004 regarding the adoption...

Die klassischen, seit Jahrhunderten erprobten Instrumente zur Bewältigung von Staatsbankrotten sind Umschuldung und nachfolgende Abwertung. Charles B. Blankart und Sven Bretschneider, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, gehen von einem weiteren Schritt aus: Nach der Umschuldung sei ein Austritt...

Die klassischen, seit Jahrhunderten erprobten Instrumente zur Bewältigung von Staatsbankrotten sind Umschuldung und nachfolgende Abwertung. Charles B. Blankart und Sven Bretschneider, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, gehen von einem weiteren Schritt aus: Nach der Umschuldung sei ein Austritt...