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The eurozone medley: a collection of recent papers on the future of euro-area governance

Our scholars Grégory Claeys, André Sapir, Dirk Schoenmaker, Nicolas Veron and Guntram B. Wolff, explore the next steps needed to create a more functional and coherent economic governance framework.

By: Date: December 6, 2017 Topic: European Macroeconomics & Governance

What are the missing pieces of the euro-area architecture? How to go beyond the Junker and Schäuble visions of euro-area governance? How should the new European Monetary Fund work, in order to break the sovereign-bank link?

Read the work of our authors on the future of the European institutional architecture:

The missing pieces of the euro architecture

By Grégory Claeys

The time is right for a European Monetary Fund

By André Sapir and Dirk Schoenmaker

Beyond the Juncker and Schäuble visions of euro-area governance

By Guntram B. Wolff

Sovereign Concentration Charges: A New Regime for Banks’ Sovereign Exposures

By Nicolas Veron

 

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