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Unlike the crisis years of 2007-2009 (when the insolvency of large banks was a major problem), the current round of the global financial crisis has fiscal origins. Almost all developed countries suffer from an excessive public debt burden that has been built up over the last two decades or more....
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The paper examines economic and political challenges of joining the euro area in the case of Poland. After reviewing … the economic developments since the pre-accession period and assessing economic convergence with the euro area the paper … focuses on the political and institutional challenges of acceding to the euro zone. Special attention is given to the effect …
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smaller output decline than the Euro area and the entire EU while the CIS, especially its European part, contracted more …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various challenges facing European integration and the EU institutional architecture as result of the global financial crisis. The European integration process is not yet complete, both in terms of its content and geographical coverage. It can be...
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This paper shows that the monetary policy paradigm that was in place before the financial crisis worked very well and that the crisis occurred only after policy makers deviated from that paradigm. The paper also evaluates monetary policy during the financial crisis by dividing the crisis into...
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inadequate policy and institutional design. The euro zone crisis is not related to fiscal negligence only; over-borrowing by the …
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The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU's present...
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