This book explores Portugal's response to the 2008 economic crisis and how the country regained the trust of the global capital markets through investor support. The experiences and successes of Portugal are compared with the other Eurozone countries, in particular Greece which had to negotiate...

1. The background -- 2. Roadmap, preparations -- 3. Investors -- 4. Managing the different ecosystems: the international press, the rating agencies and the domestic public opinion -- 5. Restarting the engines: first issuance -- 6. The road to normalization had its ups and downs. 7. The final...

This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We then offer an investigation of three main classes...