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How to Handle the Crisis in Greece? Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey of Economics Experts
Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
We asked experts from 113 countries polled by the CESifo World Economic Survey for their opinions on how to handle the … crisis in Greece. 61.9% of the experts surveyed were not in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone in the course of the … Republic, Denmark, and Slovakia were in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone. The share of experts who were in favour of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992606
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The Greek Crisis : Causes and Consequences
Garcia Pascual, Antonio I. - 2011
Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster … solvency and closing the competitiveness gap. Yet we think Greece stands a better chance of accomplishing these goals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117780
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Global Banking, Trade, and the International Transmission of the Great Recession
Born, Alexandra - 2018
large parts of the world. In this paper we explore the financial and the trade channel in a unified framework and quantify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920861
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Systemic Crisis and Growth Revisited : Has the Global Financial Crisis Marked a New Era?
Steinkamp, Sven - 2018
Occasional crises have been shown to be part of growth enhancing mechanism (see Rancière, Tornell and Westermann, 2008). In this paper, we document that neither the stereotypical case study of India vs. Thailand, nor the benchmark growth-regression in this earlier research support this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914607
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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse
Chen, Natalie - 2015
We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010482
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The Crisis in the Foreign Exchange Market
Melvin, Michael - 2013
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 had major implications for the foreign exchange market. We review events and implications for exchange rates, volatility, returns to currency investing, and transaction costs. This “blow-by-blow” narrative is intended to be a resource for researchers seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095774
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The Democratization of Rent Seeking in Greece
Moutos, Thomas - 2013
We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078912
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The Greek Crisis and Financial Assistance Programmes : An Evaluation
Arghyrou, Michael - 2015
programme (2012-14) achieved progress towards recovery but this was fragile and was cancelled out by Greece's stand-off with her … lenders in the first half of 2015. The stand-off was one that predictably Greece could not win, due to the lack of a credible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010491
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The Greek Debt Crisis : Likely Causes, Mechanics and Outcomes
Arghyrou, Michael - 2010
We use insights from the literature on currency crises to offer an analytical treatment of the crisis in the market for Greek government bonds. We argue that the crisis itself and its escalating nature are very likely to be the result of: (a) steady deterioration of Greek macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135455
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Debt Sustainability and Financial Crises : Evidence from the GIIPS
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah - 2014
We assess the sustainability of the public finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS), allowing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067329