The Target liabilities of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) amounted to314 billion euros in … destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits … partly compensated for the now reluctant private capital flows to, and the capital flight from, the periphery countries …

We assess the sustainability of the public finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS), allowing for …

Ireland, as debate grows around the prospect of a united Ireland inside the EU. UK politics is in turmoil and in a chronic …

Turkey triggered by EU-membership; and (iii) migration in response to the free movement of workers. Overall, the … macroeconomic implications for EU countries are small but positive. European exports increase by around 20 percent. Turkey … accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. If Turkey would succeed in reforming its domestic institutions in …

convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include … productivity increases in Greece. …

, Portugal, Ireland and Finland, where appropriate policy actions are of the essence. Specifically, active labour market policies …-memory processes respectively. The evidence suggests that persistence is particularly high in Japan and some EU countries such as Spain …

, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer … by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …

threshold behaviour for the GIPS, that only correct "large" unbalances, which, in the case of Greece and Portugal, are higher …