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the 2011-13 Euro crisis, the quality of services and level of regulation did not deteriorate or indeed improved …, increasing convergence with the core Euro countries. However, the debt crisis dramatically worsened citizens' perceptions of … of governance and inequality. Results show that despite divergent economic growth in the Euro periphery countries after …
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of the accumulation of Greece's public debt since the 1960s and the role of public debt in the recent crisis. We show … solution of the Greek and wider European crisis. A broader agenda that deals with the malaises of the Greek economy and the …
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This paper analyzes the trajectories of the Greek public deficit and sovereign debt over the last three decades and their connection to the political and economic environment, paying special attention to the causality between the public and the foreign deficit. The authors argue that, from 1980...
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This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in LAC-even from low and moderate peaks-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation inertia when measuring costs of disinflations,...
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This article shows that the "risk premium" shock in Smets and Wouters (2007) can be interpreted as a structural shock to the demand for safe and liquid assets such as short-term US Treasury securities. Several implications of this interpretation are discussed.
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We provide an early assessment of the Juncker Commission's contributions to the ongoing reform of the euro area. In … doing so, we present a chronological summary of the reform process up to 2014. At the time, the euro area architecture had … support for the common institution. The Juncker Commission faced a Sisyphean task. A slow bur steady euro areawide economic …
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. We find government spending complemented by import substitution to be the most appropriate response to a crisis of …
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The 2007-8 global financial crisis has shown the failure of private finance to efficiently allocate capital to finance …
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Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
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We provide a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between public debt and GDP growth in the postwar advanced economies. We use the timing of changes in public debt and growth to account for endogeneity, and find little evidence of a negative relationship. Semi-parametric estimates do not...
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