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Numerical Compliance with EU Fiscal Rules: Facts and Figures from a New Database
Larch, Martin; Malzubris, Janis; Santacroce, Stefano - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 32-42
EU fiscal rules are meant to keep public finances on a sustainable path. This paper presents a new database that tracks numerical compliance with the four main rules of the Stability and Growth Pact starting in 1998. Our assessment of numerical compliance abstracts from the many exceptions and...
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A modest proposal for resolving the eurozone crisis
Varoufakis, Yanis; Holland, Stuart - In: Intereconomics 47 (2012) 4, pp. 240-247
This paper presents three simple policies for overcoming the crisis that can be implemented immediately and require none of the moves such as national guarantees or fiscal transfers to which many Europeans are opposed, nor moves towards federation that entail Treaty changes, which electorates...
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The eurozone crisis and citizens' shattered systemic trust
Roth, Felix - In: Intereconomics 47 (2012) 3, pp. 138-139
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Convergence in GDP per Capita in the Euro Area and the EU at the Time of COVID-19
Licchetta, Mirko; Mattozzi, Giovanni - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 43-51
This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...
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Greece's new agreement with Europe: Is this time different?
Kazarian, Paul B.; Pelagidis, Theodore - In: Intereconomics 50 (2015) 5, pp. 281-287
The correct understanding of Greece's debt can only be obtained by using international accrual accounting standards rather than the cash-basis future face value defi nition. Changing the terms of debt changes the value of the debt in Greek governmental fi nancial statements correctly prepared...
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Towards a New Euro Crisis?
De Grauwe, Paul - In: Intereconomics 57 (2022) 5, pp. 273-277
government bond markets. This will continue to make the eurozone a fragile construction. As a result, the possibility of a future …
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External imbalances in the EU: A REER-based explanation
Kutasi, Gábor - In: Intereconomics 50 (2015) 5, pp. 301-308
The debt crisis of the eurozone revealed a structural problem of the single market rooted in the external imbalance … problem of indebted member states. The assumption of this paper is that the current account imbalances within the eurozone are … based on an intra-eurozone competitiveness disparity originated in the single currency and the heterogeneity of member state …
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The Debt Ceiling, Once More, with Feeling...
Galbraith, James K. - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 63-64
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A more effective euro area monetary policy than OMTs: Gold-backed sovereign debt
Belke, Ansgar - In: Intereconomics 48 (2013) 4, pp. 237-242
Given the shortcomings of the current responses to the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone, the author proposes … achieve this without adding further risky assets to the European Central Bank's balance sheet and thereby transferring credit … risk to Northern European countries. …
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Editorial: A Three Percent Structural Deficit Rule
Breuer, Christian - In: Intereconomics 57 (2022) 1, pp. 2-3
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