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Imbalances ; Sectoral Balances Approach ; Modern Money Theory ; Debt Cancellation ; Global Financial Crisis ; Euro Crisis ; EMU …
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Yet another rescue plan for the European Monetary Union (EMU) is making its way through central Europe, but no one is … profligate spending by some nations but rather the setup of the EMU itself. We then turn to US problems, assessing the …
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The argument put forward in this paper is twofold: first, that the financial crisis of 2007/08 was made global by the U.S. current account deficit. This is because the outflow of dollars from the United States was invested in U.S. capital markets, causing inflation in asset markets and leading...
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One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments have a very flexible policy space that is unencumbered by hard financial constraints. Through a detailed analysis of the institutions and practices surrounding the fiscal and...
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The Guyana government, from 2015 to 2021, accumulated a large overdraft on its central bank account. It owed this overdraft to a binding debt ceiling limit and fractious political environment that prevented an increase in the ceiling, allowing for the auctioning of Treasury bills to create the...
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originated from the financial convergence that followed adoption of the euro. …
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A technical analysis shows that the doomsayers who support the euro at all costs and those who naively theorize that a … single currency is the root of all evil are both wrong. A euro exit could be a way of getting back to growth, but at the same … the euro; or, in the case of a euro exit, on the quality of the economic policies that are put in place once the country …
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default. It is argued that the current crisis in Europe illustrates why the euro is not a real contender for hegemony in the … near future. -- Dollar ; Euro ; International Currency …
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. At the same time, these processes could help transition the euro from its current status as the single currency to the …
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institutional deficiencies share responsibility for the euro's failure, the bank has generally done "too little, too late" with … regard to managing the euro crisis, preventing protracted stagnation, and containing deflation threats. The bank remains … attached to the euro area’s official competitive wage-repression strategy, which is in conflict with the ECB's price stability …
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