Confronting crisis and precariousness in the European Union / Stefan Schmalz, Brandon Sommer and Antonio Loffredo -- Precariousness in the Eurozone : causes, effects and developments / Klaus Dörre -- The competitive architecture of european integration : European labour division, locational...

The Baltic states were arguably the countries most severely affected by the global financial crisis. This article discusses the boom preceding the crisis, the ensuing austerity policies and the economic effects of these policies. All three countries maintained fixed exchange rates, but the...

This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries and the US, and discretionary fiscal stimulus packages passed by these countries during the recent economic crisis. In particular, we ask whether countries...