This paper analyses the evolution of public support for euro from 1990 to 2011, using a popularity function approach, focusing on most recent period financial and sovereign debt crisis. Exploring huge database close half million observations, covering 12 original area member countries, we find that ongoing crisis has only marginally reduced citizens’ – at least so far. result is in stark contra...

Despite major structural shifts in the international monetary system over past six decades, US dollar remains dominant reserve currency. Using a newly compiled database of individual economies’ holdings by currency, this paper finds that financial links have been an increasingly important driver currency configurations since global crisis, particularly for emerging market and developing economi...