Main description: Noch ist die Frage nicht abschließend beantwortet und beantwortbar, ob dauerhafte Folgen der Krise bleiben werden, in den Verhaltensweisen der Menschen und in den wirtschaftlichen Strukturen und Indikatoren ebenso wie in der Bedeutung ökonomischer Theorien. Dies gilt auch...

This paper argues that, under certain conditions, firms consider export activity as a substitute of serving domestic demand. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand pressure and capacity constraint restrictions as additional variables of a properly specified...

Two of the four macroeconomic adjustment programmes, Portugal and Ireland's, can be considered a success in the sense that the initial expectations in terms of adjustment, both fiscal and external, were broadly fulfilled. A rebound based on exports has taken hold in these two countries, but a...