The Mutualization of Sovereign Debt: Comparing the American Past and the European Present

7 Απριλίου, 2015

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Steinbach, A. (2015) “The Mutualization of Sovereign Debt: Comparing the American Past and the European Present“. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Gender, Work And Organization, 07 Απριλίου. This study identifies commonalities between two historical incidents of debt assumption – in the United States in 1791 and in present-day Europe. By comparing the interests and behaviour of key players in these two incidents, we find three major parallels: first, …Read More

Parliamentary administrations are an important pillar in the parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs

3 Απριλίου, 2015

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Högenauer, A. L. & Neuhold, C. (2015) “Parliamentary administrations are an important pillar in the parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs“, LSE EUROPP, 03 Απριλίου. National parliaments were given new powers to scrutinise EU legislation in the Treaty of Lisbon. As Anna-Lena Högenauer and Christine Neuhold write, the intention was to bring EU issues closer to European citizens, however one largely overlooked feature is the role of parliamentary bureaucracies in …Read More

A Eurozone Without Greece – It’s time to think more seriously about this possibility

2 Απριλίου, 2015

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Richard Barwell, A Eurozone Without Greece – It’s time to think more seriously about this possibility, Wall Street Journal, 01 Απριλίου 2015. The 24-hour news cycle is causing a cacophony of speculation about Greece leaving the euro, the so-called Grexit. Amid all the arguments about whether Greece will or should exit, there has been a lot less thought given to what would happen if Greece does return to the …Read More

Capital control measures: A new dataset

2 Απριλίου, 2015

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Fernández, Α., Klein, W. M., Rebucci, A., Schindler, M. & Uribe, M. (2015) “Capital control measures: A new dataset“, VoxEU Organisation, 02 Απριλίου. A renewed interest in capital controls following the Great Recession requires a serious empirical reconsideration of their effectiveness as policy instruments. This column introduces a new dataset that features unprecedented levels of disaggregation between asset categories, and distinguishes transactions between residents and non-residents. The ensuing debate …Read More

Eurozone interbank lending market during the Global and EZ crises

2 Απριλίου, 2015

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Abbassi, P., Bräuning, F., Fecht, F. & Peydró, J. S. (2015) “Eurozone interbank lending market during the Global and EZ crises“, VoxEU Organisation, 02 Απριλίου. The Global Crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone severely distressed wholesale funding markets. This column argues that in the Eurozone, interbank funding conditions tightened particularly for cross-border borrowing. Moreover, during the worst moments of the crisis, the same borrower bank could …Read More

A World Without The Welfare State

1 Απριλίου, 2015

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Dr Richard M. Ebeling (2015) “A World Without The Welfare State“, The Cobden Centre, Politics 29 Μαρτίου. We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market solutions …Read More

OECD360: Ελλάδα 2015 – Πώς Συμμετέχει η Ελλάδα;

31 Μαρτίου, 2015

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OECD360: Ελλάδα 2015 – Πώς Συμμετέχει η Ελλάδα;, OECD Publications, Μάρτιος 2015. Το OECD360 μεταφέρει τις τελευταίες αναλύσεις και τα δεδομένα από σημαντικές δημοσιεύσεις του OECD. Η πληθώρα γραφημάτων απεικονίζει τα επίκαιρα κρίσιμα ζητήματα. Εκπαίδευση, εργασία, πράσινη ανάπτυξη, εθνικές προοπτικές, γεωργία, οικονομική ανάπτυξη, η οικονομική κρίση και οι συνέπειές της στην κοινωνία και στην ανάπτυξη: 8 θέματα που συνοψίζουν την κατάσταση της χώρας σας καθώς και την κατάσταση της …Read More

The costs of Greece’s fiscal consolidation

31 Μαρτίου, 2015

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Gechert, S. & Rannenberg, A. (2015) “The costs of Greece’s fiscal consolidation“, Macroeconomic Policy Institute, Μάρτιος. This policy brief reexamines the effects of the Greek austerity experiment on its economy via a counterfactual analysis. We combine the fiscal multipliers from the meta regression analysis in Gechert and Rannenberg (2014) to the fiscal consolidation measures that have been implemented in Greece between 2010 and 2014. We estimate that austerity explains …Read More

Greece And Other Benefit Scroungers

31 Μαρτίου, 2015

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Wren-Lewis, S. (2015) “Greece And Other Benefit Scroungers“, Social Europe Journal, 30 Μαρτίου. Whenever I write a post critical of German views on Eurozone policy, I get comments which can be paraphrased in the following way. Greece (and maybe other Eurozone countries) are incapable of governing themselves properly, and when they get into difficulties Germany has to bail them out, so it is only reasonable that as a price …Read More

Destroying the Greek economy in order to save it – European authorities are using dirty tactics to bring Greece to heel

31 Μαρτίου, 2015

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Mark Weisbrot, Destroying the Greek economy in order to save it – European authorities are using dirty tactics to bring Greece to heel, Al Jazeera America, 30 Μαρτίου 2015. There is a tense standoff right now between the Greek government and the so-called troika — the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ECB President Mario Draghi went so far this week as …Read More

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