Efforts at fiscal consolidation are often limited because of concerns over potential social unrest. From German austerity measures during the 1930s to the violent demonstrations in Greece in 2010, hard times have tended to go hand in hand with antigovernment violence. In this paper, I assemble...

Based on a narrative dataset constructed by David and Leigh (2018) that covers nine South American economies in the period 1982-2017, this paper estimates dynamic effects of fiscal consolidations on income inequality from Jordá (2005)'s local projections method. Results suggest that fiscal...

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...