Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101200 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 408
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe's structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member economies were not free of trouble before the euro. Many members were losing competitiveness and in need of removing structural rigidities. If anything, the euro was expected to encourage structural reform, by taking away the easy choice of monetary and fiscal expansion. We first discuss the relationship between the single currency and economic stability in Europe. We confirm the asymmetries that remained after the introduction of the euro and then discuss the governance overhaul taking place in Europe today. This overhaul was something that should have been done before introducing the euro, and its advancement may be the silver lining of this crisis. Finally, we touch upon the implications for Asia and Japan, from the point of view of the choice of exchange rate regime as a method to advance necessary reforms.
Subjects: 
single currency
europe
euro area crisis
economic stability
exchange rate regimes
JEL: 
F33
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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