How reliable are public debt statistics? This paper quantifies the magnitude, characteristics, and timing of hidden debt by tracking ex post data revisions across a comprehensive new database of more than 50 vintages of World Bank debt statistics. In a sample of debt data covering 146 countries...

Introduction: Managing Complexity -- The Path to European Monetary Union -- The Evolution of the Debt Crisis -- Economic Impact of the Euro: Who Benefits? -- Re-assessing the Criteria for an Optimum Currency Area in Europe -- What Went Wrong with Public and Macroeconomic Stabilization? -- Policy...

Tables and graphs -- Foreword / by Donald Sassoon -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline of main events in Greece and Europe (October 2009 - January 2013) -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Financialisation and European "integration" : theoretical considerations -- The sinews of capital and...