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, 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 …
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This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that … austerity have made the situation worse by adding a growth crisis to the potpourri of internal stresses that threaten the euro …
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Financial market crises with the threat of a subsequent debt-deflation depression have occurred with increasing regularity in the United States from 1980 through the present. Almost reflexively, when confronted with such circumstances, US institutions and the policymakers that run them have...
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It is commonplace to link neoclassical economics to 18th- or 19th-century physics and its notion of equilibrium, of a pendulum once disturbed eventually coming to rest. Likewise, an economy subjected to an exogenous shock seeks equilibrium through the stabilizing market forces unleashed by the...
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inherited from Germany's mercantilist past and Bundesbank mythology. Steps toward a fiscal union to back the euro are also …
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of existing national public debts is involved. Instead, the Euro Treasury is established as a means to pool eurozone …The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is … the euro are assessed and found lacking. A "Euro Treasury" scheme operating on a strict rule and specifically designed not …
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This paper examines Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recipe for deflation fighting and the specific policy actions he took in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Both in his academic and in his policy work, Bernanke has made the case that monetary policy is able to stem...
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One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments have a very flexible policy space that is unencumbered by hard financial constraints. Through a detailed analysis of the institutions and practices surrounding the fiscal and...
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to the euro area, where constraints have been deliberately created that limit public deficits and the supply of central … euro area is facing a deflationary tendency that may further erode the economic welfare of the region. …
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With the creation of the Economic and Monetary Union and the euro, the national government debt of eurozone member … monetization" rule, the one embraced by the eurozone was special, as it also prevented monetization on the secondary market for … debt. This made all eurozone public debt defaultable--at least until the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the Outright …
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