The "great recession" has affected labor markets in Euro-area countries in very different ways. This chapter documents two important aspects of their response: the impact effect of the recession on the rate of unemployment, and the persistence of high unemployment. We find that countries lie on...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Bagehot or Bailout? Policy Responses to Banking Crises -- 2 Accidents Waiting to Happen -- 3 Political Regimes, Bank Insolvency, and Closure Rules -- 4 Argentina and Mexico: A Closer...

Introduction : social coalitions between equilibria and crises / Hideko Magara -- The emergence of an anti-bourgeois bloc in France / Bruno Amable & Stefano Palombarini -- Abenomics and Japanese politics / Masanobu Ido -- Who turned their back on the SPD? : electoral disaffection with the German...