Juan Rojas at "Deepening the EMU" seminar

“Deepening the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)”

Part of the set of lunch-time seminars at the European Commission to discuss the White Paper on the Future of Europe
 
Fifteen years after the introduction of the euro, the common currency is now an integral part of our lives. It is the second most used currency in the world, shared by almost 340 million citizens in 19 Member States. The euro has lowered the economic transaction costs and contributed to advance in the completion of our internal market. At the same time, the crisis of the past years has tested the integrity of the euro area and the limits of the current institutional architecture.
 
Against this backdrop, the debate will be organised around the following questions:

1. What is the likely future of EMU and what are the next steps that will need to be adopted ?
2. What are the potential challenges for the future of EMU ?
3. What is the role of research and innovation policy in the future Euro area ?

Juan Rojas is Head of Economics and Market Analysis at the European Stability Mechanism. After completing his PhD in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), he held several positions in the academia, at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the EUI. Afterwards, he was Senior Economist at the Bank of Spain and taught courses on International Economics at the IE Business School (Madrid). He has published academic articles in Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Dynamic, Canadian Journal of Economics and Econometric Modelling among others. He joined the ESM in April 2013 as Senior Country Economist and became Deputy Head of Economics and Market Analysis in 2014. In August 2015 he was appointed Head of the same division at the ESM. Over the last few years he also took the role of ESM mission chief for Portugal and currently he is the mission chief for Spain.