Brazys, Samuel; Hardiman, Niamh - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2013
PIIGS, BRICs and LDCs pervade the lexicon of international and comparative political economy. But they can also lead to … interest rates. In this paper we look at the narrative construction of the group of countries that has been grouped as ‘PIIGS … Granger causality, such that increased media usage of the term ‘PIIGS’ is followed by converging interest rate correlations …