Breaking Up the Euro The End of a Common Currency

by Chorafas, Dimitris N.

• ISBN13: 9781137333261
• ISBN10: 113733326X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-08-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The drama of the common currency is a hot topic. The Euro was planned for the European Union's member states, bringing economically strong nations like Germany and Holland and weaker nations like Greece, Spain and Italy under one set of currency rules.

A dozen years of its implementation has shown that the planning was incomplete at best. Add to this the weight of a deepening debt crisis among western nations, which continues unabated, and Europe has a very deep financial hole to climb out of. In this work, Dimitris N. Chorafas provides the reader with evidence to poor political judgment, then delves into preparation for the foreseeable Euro breakup and confronts the redenomination risk associated to it.

Author Biography

Dimitris N. Chorafas has served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as visiting professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences world-wide. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives have participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America.Chorafas is the author of 160 books, some of which have been translated into 16 languages.

Table of Contents

1. The Break-up of the Euro Is a Probable 'Impossibility'
2. The Lack of Leadership is Deeply Felt in Western Countries
3. The 19th 'Summit's' Miracle Weapons; June 28/29, 2012
4. ECB, EFSF, ESM, Eurobonds and Political Horse Trading
5. Throwing Money to a Four-Letter Wind: LTRO
6. Fiscal Compact and Outright Monetary Transactions
7. TARGET2. The Creeping Risk of a Financial Nuclear Bomb
8. Redenomination Risk Following a Euro Break-up