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The Enduring Popularity of the Euro throughout the Crisis

In: Public Support for the Euro

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  • Felix Roth

    (University of Hamburg)

  • Lars Jonung

    (Lund University)

  • Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.

    (University of Göttingen)

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This paper analyses the evolution of public support for the euro from 1990 to 2011, using a popularity function approach, focusing on the most recent period of the financial and sovereign debt crisis. Exploring a huge database of close to half a million observations, covering the 12 original euro area member countries, we find that the ongoing crisis has only marginally reduced citizens’ support for the euro – at least so far. This result is in stark contrast to the sharp fall in public trust in the European Central Bank. We conclude that the crisis has hardly dented popular support for the euro while the central bank supplying the single currency has lost ground in public trust. Thus, the euro appears to have established a credibility of its own – separate from the institutional framework behind the currency.

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  • Felix Roth & Lars Jonung & Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., 2022. "The Enduring Popularity of the Euro throughout the Crisis," Contributions to Economics, in: Public Support for the Euro, chapter 0, pages 169-185, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-030-86024-0_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86024-0_9
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    1. Hobolt, Sara B. & Wratil, Christopher, 2015. "Public opinion and the crisis: the dynamics of support for the euro," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60788, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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