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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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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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example has been cruelly shaken by the EZ (Euro Zone) crisis, originating increasing doubts about the integration process. It … is evident that the proposed solutions for attacking the crisis have hurt the European cohesion making more and more … solution, and the recurrent EU proclamations of "policies to restore European growth", the crisis in the EZ looks more and more …
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I build a model where creditworthy countries may use fiscal austerity to communicate their ability to repay sovereign debt and show that the signaling channel is active only for high levels of asymmetric information. The model generates a negative association between the amount of public...
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capacities to serve public debt will decline, aggravating a sovereign debt crisis. Debt renegotiations can help to avoid the …
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This paper dwells on the Eurozone woes and addresses the origins of the transition from a fictitious boom to a painful bust by unravelling (i) the supply-side structural imbalances that formed the core-periphery economic divide, and (ii) the necessity of the periphery's sovereign debt to finance...
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crisis. At the same time, the private sector demand in the CESEE countries is unlikely to recover substantially in the near …
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circumstances. The recent crisis (2007–2008) revealed the weakness of the established economic theories, also as regards fiscal …
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We try to explain the origins and the dynamics of the sovereign debt crisis in Greece, in the context of critical … realist economics. The origins of the Greek crisis are discovered in the global credit crisis of 2007 and are rooted in the … the outbreak of the crisis in late 2009 until the return of the Greek government to bond markets in April 2014. We discuss …
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