The incomplete currency : the future of the euro and solutions for the Eurozone

Content: Machine generated contents note: List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments About the Author About the Website Chapter 1: The Building Blocks of the Single European Currency 1.1 The Basic Concepts: Financial Flows, Risks and Probability Distribution 1.2 Sovereign Credit Risk, Public Debt and Inflation 1.3 Single Curve of Interest Rate: EURIBOR, EURO SWAP, EUREPO 1.4 The Monetary Policy in the Eurozone and the Mechanisms of Transmission 1.5 Recognition and Management of the sovereign credit risk Chapter 2: The Eurozone Architecture and the Working Paradigms 2.1 Relationships within the European Financial System 2.2 The transmission mechanisms between Finance and Real Economy in the Eurozone Chapter 3: The Single Currency Area in the Context of International Crisis 3.1 Before the Crisis: The Adverse Effects of the Single Currency 3.2. The Crisis: Divergence of the Sovereign Debt Curves and the disintegration of the single interest rate curve Chapter 4: Dysfunctional Mechanisms of the Eurozone 4.1 The explosion of Target2 Balances and the unsustainable accumulation of the structural imbalances 4.2 The Nationalization of the Public Debt: the Case of Italy 4.3 The Nationalization of the Public Debt pushed to the extreme: the case of Greece Chapter 5: The Pathological Banks-Governments Relationship 5.1 The Spread Intermediation 5.2 Collateral Discrimination on the Interbank Market 5.3 The Divergence Mechanisms in Action: Synergies and Accelerations 5.4 Case Studies: The divergence process in some peripheral countries Chapter 6: Assessing the Risk of a Euro Break-Up 6.1 A Historical Perspective on the Possible Break-up of the Euro 6.2 The probability of a Euro Break-up 6.3 Costs and Benefits associated with the Exit from the Euro Chapter 7: Financial Assistance and Fiscal Agreements in the Eurozone 7.1 The Sovereign Bail-out Funds 7.2 The Reforms of the Stability and Growth Pact and the Fiscal Compact Chapter 8: The Extraordinary Interventions of the ECB 8.1 The Securities Market Programme and the Purchases of Covered Bonds 8.2 The Long Term Refinancing Operations of December 2011 and February 2012 (LTROs) 8.3 The Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) 8.4 The Targeted Long-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) 8.5 The Quantitative Easing Chapter 9: The European and National Interventions on the Banking Systems 9.1 The Banking Union 9.2 The Hidden Recapitalisation of the Peripheral Banking Systems 9.3 The State Aids to the Banking Systems of the Core Countries Chapter 10: Mutualisation of the Public Debt and Fiscal Transfers 10.1 The Mutualisation of the Public Debt in the Eurozone 10.2 The «Fiscal Currency» and Other Theories for the Unilateral Solution of Problems for Peripheral Countries 10.3 The Fiscal Transfers: Proposals for Structural Balance of Financial Flows Chapter 11: Proposals of Monetary Policy Interventions to Overcome the Crisis 11.1 Reforming the Statutory Objectives of the ECB: The «Zero-Spread Target» 11.2 The Cancellation of Interests on Government Bonds Purchased by the ECB 11.3 The European Public Debt Refinancing Programme (EPDRP) 11.4 A Far More Pervasive Intervention: Partial Debt Monetization 11.5 The Purchase Programme of Asset Backed Securities Guaranteed by Sovereign States and Supranational Institutions 11.6 A Measure of Direct Support to the Real Economy: the Cancellation of Impaired Debts of the Non-Financial Private Sector 11.7 A Proposal for an Authentic Sustainability of the Greek Public Debt Chapter 12: Transparency as a Tool to Prevent Excessive Risk-taking and Contrast the Crisis 12.1 The Need for a Market Logic at the Basis of the Financial Sector\'s Regulation 12.2 Implications of the Lack of Transparency on Risks at a Macro Level 12.3 Fair Value and Probability Scenarios as Solution to the Problem of Risk Transparency Annex A References Index .