 Five Years with the EuroMPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Abstract: Since the start of the European Monetary Union there has been an intense debate on whether the euro would challenge the U.S. dollar’s dominant role first as an international currency, and then as an official reserve currency. Five years after the euro was born, it is considered without doubt an international currency since it has been reported that ¨in December (2006) the currency came of age by overtaking the U.S. dollar in terms of the value of notes in circulation¨1. Moreover, since the euro has successfully developed a solid financial market, it is consequently eroding some of the advantages that historically supported the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency. There are two intertwined reasons that explain why the U.S. dollar remains the leading international currency. To begin with, there is (1) inertia in the use of the U.S. dollar due to years of currency pre-eminence which (2) has helped the U.S. dollar to have an edge over the euro in terms of the size, credit quality and liquidity of the dollar financial markets over the euro market. Despite all this, the euro has been enjoying a successful moment in the last years since it is appreciating against the U.S. dollar especially since mid-2002 Keywords: Euro; international currency; definition of money (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:7182 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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