economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin … America's experience is particularly relevant and worrisome. Still, Europe may be in a better position to navigate a path out …

This paper dwells on the Eurozone woes and addresses the origins of the transition from a fictitious boom to a painful … the future of the Eurozone that will halt the tearing of the social fabric of its member states. …

Covid-19 crisis (2020-2021) was significantly more countercyclical than before - in particular in the Eurozone. We do not … performance over 2020-2021 was more in line with the past than for discretionary fiscal policy. Overall, fiscal policy in non-Eurozone … advanced countries is more countercyclical than in the Eurozone. However, the cyclicality varies markedly across countries. Our …

between governments and financial systems in Europe cannot be reduced to polar notions of "capture" and "repression", but that … each other. Second, we put these issues into an historical perspective and show that the current reconfiguration of Europe …