Finland: The Euro vs. The Markka
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tuomas-malinen/finland-the-euro-vs-the-m_b_8960950.html
Four years ago, yours truly, Dr. Henri Nyberg and Dr. Ulla Lehmijoki came up with an idea to simulate the development of Finland's export sector under the assumption that Finland would have never joined the euro. The study was published in our firm's webpage in March 2012. What we found was that the exports of Finland would have been some 15 percentage points higher in 2011, if Finland would have had its own (floating) currency.
Our counterfactual analysis of the Finnish export sector thus implies that the majority of Finland's economic malaise has not been the fault of (e.g.) the fall of the Nokia ltd., Finland's rigid labor market or the collapse of the paper industry, but the euro. They naturally had a role in the non-existent recovery of Finland after the financial crisis, but these structural issues became a serious burden to the economy only because Finland uses the euro.
Although the Finnish economy is in a dire need of a restructuring, the main blame on our economic woes should be placed where it belongs, namely on the euro membership.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tuomas-malinen/finland-the-euro-vs-the-m_b_8960950.html