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, regulatory and supervisory framework governing banking stability in Greece in the era of the European Banking Union and its …
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The present study examines the impact of the current fiscal crisis in the euro area on the Greek banking system and the measures adopted to preserve its stability. It is divided into 3 Sections:(a) Section 1 contains an overview of the causes of the recent (2007-2009) international financial...
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The sovereign debt crisis in Greece represents a very interesting case in which the Greek government succeeded in … pitfalls of the €110 billion EU/IMF rescue package granted to Greece are examined. It is argued that the government’s focus on …
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Debt Overhang is a controversial issue in the eurozone countries and is considered as one of the factors which created … the current economic crisis. How to deal with sovereign debt has been debated both at the theoretical and policy making … level. This paper looks at the Greek debt and four options are discussed: (a) unilateral default (b) unilaterally imposed …
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In Greece and other countries of the eurozone there are a number of misconceptions about the debt crisis. I argue …
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depends on desired savings and sustainable indebtedness. This savings-debt constraint means that any policy that inhibits debt … it is possible to create jobs without creating new debt underscores a serious conceptual fault and a delusion that the … savings-debt constraint to spending can be ignored. As long as policy-makers defy the savings-debt constraint the euro area …
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undermined from its beginning and only had a limited disciplining effect henceforth. Otherwise the breakout of the ongoing debt …
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government debt level and the general investors' risk aversion had a significant impact on interest differentials. In the …
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We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 over the period 1970-2006 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for structural breaks. We also apply modern panel...
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With the announcement to intervene on financial markets to restore the monetary transmission mechanism, the ECB has attenuated the pressure of the markets on the endangered peripheral countries of the Eurozone. Critics argue that by eliminating the markets' disciplining interest mechanism,...
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