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This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that … monetary union and other assets. We firstly analyse a country's debt choice, assuming as a benchmark case that the no-bailout …
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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 political-economic set-up, i) the bail-out was unavoidable, ii) the lengthy process …
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strengthen the EZ through at least four channels. -- sovereign debt crisis ; Eurozone ; Euro ; exit rules ; bail-out ; political …This paper argues that the key issue for defining and solving the Eurozone's (EZ) difficulties lies in readjusting the … essence of today's crisis we analyze to what extent a "troubled" periphery EZ member can negotiate a bailout from the center …
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Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster than GDP. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot close the solvency gap. A substantial reduction in the stock of debt is needed. Even post-debt restructuring, there is no guarantee...
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The Target liabilities of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) amounted to314 billion euros in March 2011. They measure the additional central bank money that their corresponding National Central Banks (NCBs) have loaned in excess of the money needed to cover their domestic...
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How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature has responded to the eurozone …
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This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. We argue that a viable European fiscal union can be constructed without joint liability for public debt or a centralized government with a large common budget. Such a fiscal union should combine elements of market discipline...
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We analyse the background of the Greek debt crisis and evaluate the three Greek financial assistance programme. The crisis and the first programme's (2010-11) failure were mainly the result of misguided internal policies. The second programme (2012-14) achieved progress towards recovery but this...
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We present the first evidence on public attitudes towards two prominent euro area reform proposals (European Unemployment Benefit Scheme and Sovereign Insolvency Procedure) and assess potential impediments to their implementation by means of a randomized survey experiment in Germany. We find...
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In this paper we analyse debt stabilization in a monetary union that features endogenous risk premia. In particular, we analyse debt stabilization in two diametrically opposed regimes. In the first regime, the "national fiscal discipline regime", financial markets impose sovereign risk premia...
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