Gärtner, Manfred; Griesbach, Björn; Mennillo, Giulia - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 48 (2013) 6, pp. 358-365
This article narrates Ireland’s recent odyssey from the pride and envy of Europe to kneeling supplicant through the … triggered and propelled Ireland’s drift towards sovereign default: first, the global financial crisis that drove Ireland into a … reflected by high interest rates and communicated by the massive downgrades of Ireland’s sovereign debt rating. …