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of the euro area crisis in the summer and fall of 2011, these events weakened the banking system which was vulnerable due … to its exposure in Greece. Rather than deal with its ?scal crisis, the government secured a loan from the Russian … the February 2013 election. The strategy succeeded in delaying resolution of the crisis and avoiding short-term political …
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This paper explores the dominant role of politics in decisions made by euro area governments during the crisis … discussed. The domination of politics over economics has led to crisis mismanagement. The underlying cause of tension is … noncooperative manner. This has magnified the costs of the crisis and has resulted in an unbalanced and divisive incidence of the …
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The European crisis did not originate with the Euro but with the excessive public debt of peripheral Eurozone countries …
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sovereign debt crisis has fundamentally changed the rules of the game in sovereign debt markets, particularly in the euro area … bonds of safe-haven countries have come under close scrutiny or lost some of their prime ratings. Yet crisis countries have …
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We compare the experience of Latin American external debt crises, in particular the one in the 80s, with the current European one. We do so with the aim of shedding some light on the needed adjustment mechanisms. We argue for the need of much larger debt relief in Europe. To address the moral...
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Motivated the European debt crisis, we construct a tractable theory of sovereign debt and structural reforms under …
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The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area has raised interest in early warning indicators, aimed at signalling the …
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deteriorada, marcada por la crisis de deuda externa. Durante los gobiernos militares los salarios reales cayeron …
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We study how excessive debt-GDP ratios affect political sustainability of prudent fiscal policy in country members of a monetary union. We develop a model with free choice of distinct rent-seeking groups to cooperate (or not) in providing public goods, in seeking rents, and in austere debt...
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The recent European debt crisis has sparked a heated debate on the merits of fiscal austerity. Since the main objective …
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