Orphanides, Athanasios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
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 …