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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2008
We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …
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The Breakup of the Euro Area
Eichengreen, Barry - 2010
The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various member states led politicians to blame the European...
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Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression
de Bromhead, Alan - 2012
We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing anti-system parties in elections in the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy. What mattered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110236
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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means
Eichengreen, Barry; Ruehl, Christof - 2021
, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …
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