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An outline of a progressive resolution to the euro-area sovereign debt overhang : how a five-year suspension of the debt burden could overthrow austerity

Sōtēropulos, Dēmētrēs P.; Mēlios, Giannēs G.; … - 2014

restructuring of any foreign eurozone country. Debt will not be forgiven: individual states will agree to buy it back from the ECB …

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Fiscal policy and rebalancing in the Euro area : a critique of the German debt brake from a Post-Keynesian perspective

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2013

The German debt brake is often regarded as a great success story, and has therefore served as a role model for the Euro area and its fiscal compact. In this paper we fundamentally criticize the debt brake. We show that (1) it suffers from serious shortcomings, and its success is far from certain...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187671

The euro and its guardian of stability : the fiction and reality of the 10th anniversary blast

Bibow, Jörg - 2009

This paper investigates why Europe fared particularly poorly in the global economic crisis that began in August 2007. It questions the self-portrait of Europe as the victim of external shocks, pushed off track by reckless policies pursued elsewhere. It argues instead that Europe had not only...

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The European Central Bank and why things are the way they are : a historic monetary policy pivot point and moment of (relative) clarity

Dubois, Robert - 2012

, financial, and political arenas. Apart from the eurozone crisis and global monetary policy issues, for nearly two years all else … divergence and political and social discord across member-states. Given the scale and scope of the eurozone crisis, policy and … become more homogenized, synchronized, and directionally clear than at any time since early 2009. -- Eurozone ; Monetary …

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The euro debt crisis and Germany's euro trilemma

Bibow, Jörg - 2012

This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that the crisis is not primarily a "sovereign debt crisis" but rather a (twin) banking and balance of payments crisis. Intra-area competitiveness and current account imbalances, and...

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What are the driving factors behind the rise of spreads and CDSs of euro-area sovereign bonds? : a FAVAR model for Greece and Ireland

Apergēs, Nikolaos; Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. - 2012

This paper examines the underlying dynamics of selected euro-area sovereign bonds by employing a factor-augmenting vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model for the first time in the literature. This methodology allows for identifying the underlying transmission mechanisms of several factors; in...

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The euro crisis and the job guarantee : a proposal for Ireland

Wray, L. Randall - 2012

Euroland is in a crisis that is slowly but surely spreading from one periphery country to another; it will eventually reach the center. The blame is mostly heaped upon supposedly profligate consumption by Mediterraneans. But that surely cannot apply to Ireland and Iceland. In both cases, these...

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Making the Euro viable : the Euro treasury plan

Bibow, Jörg - 2015

a vehicle to pool future eurozone public investment spending and to have it funded by proper eurozone treasury …

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The Euro's savior? : assessing the ECB's crisis management performance and potential for crisis resolution

Bibow, Jörg - 2015

This study assesses the European Central Bank’s (ECB) crisis management performance and potential for crisis resolution. The study investigates the institutional and functional constraints that delineate the ECB’s scope for policy action under crisis conditions, and how the bank has actually...

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On the Franco-German euro contradiction and ultimate euro battleground

Bibow, Jörg - 2013

Highlighting that France and Germany held largely contradicting hopes and aspirations for Europe's common currency, this paper analyzes how the resulting euro contradiction conditioned the ongoing euro crisis as well as current strategies to resolve it. While Germany generally prevailed in...

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