Currency competition to save the euro

The expectation that the member states of the European Monetary Union would adapt over time to the requirements of a single European currency has not been fulfilled. In order to ward off a politically and economically costly collapse of the euro, it is therefore necessary to restructure the European currency. In this paper, we propose a renewal of the euro as “100% money” in a regime of competition with other types of money.

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