Political economy perspectives on the Greek crisis : debt, austerity and unemployment / Ioannis Bournakis, Christopher Tsoukis, Dimitris K. Christopoulos, Theodore Palivos, editors.

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English
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  • Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xxiv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis. It identifies and explains Greece's idiosyncratic weaknesses, and highlights the existing rigidities in the EU architecture that make the recovery prospects of the Greek economy challenging. Chapters from expert contributors highlight aspects of the performance of the Greek economy with focus on export performance, labour market conditions, political cycles and regional income disparities. The book then goes on to outline the banking system in Greece in the post-crisis era, and includes analysis that explains how the credit rating score affected Greece's borrowing capacity prior to the start of the insolvency crisis. The final part analyses and compares alternative scenarios of fiscal consolidation, seeking to identify whether there are alternatives to fiscal austerity and the impact of each one of them. This section also clarifies various misconceptions about the significant determinants of international competitiveness. Despite the focus of the book, the lessons drawn from the chapters are not limited to Greece.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Christopher Tsoukis, Ioannis Bournakis, Dimitris K. Christopoulos, Theodore Palivos
    • The Eurozone Crisis: A Near-Perfect Case of Mismanagement / Charles Wyplosz
    • The Elusive Promise of Structural Reform / Dani Rodrik
    • The Responsibility of the EU / John Grahl
    • German Macroeconomic Thought and Its Effects / George Bratsiotis, David Cobham
    • Seven Years of Austerity and the Greek Dra(ch)ma: Three Economists' Views and a Comment / Menelaos G. Karanasos, Panagiotis D. Koutroumpis, John Hatgioannides, Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala
    • A Macroeconomic Perspective on the Greek Debt Crisis / Michael Wickens
    • On the Role of the Credit Rating Agencies in the Euro Zone Crisis / Periklis Boumparis, Costas Milas, Theodore Panagiotidis
    • The Greek Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Study of its Drivers / George Economides, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Apostolis Philippopoulos
    • The Limits of Austerity: The Fiscal Multiplier and the 'Debt Laffer Curve' / Christopher Tsoukis
    • Fiscal Consolidation Policies and the Underground Economy: The Case of Greece / Evi Pappa, Rana Sajedi, Eugenia Vella
    • Output and Unemployment: Estimating Okun's Law for Greece / Ioannis Bournakis, Dimitris K. Christopoulos
    • On the Determinants of NPLs: Lessons from Greece / Evangelos Charalambakis, Yiannis Dendramis, Elias Tzavalis
    • Who Exports High-Quality Manufacturing Products? Some Empirical Regularities From Greek Exporting Firms / Sarantis Kalyvitis
    • Spatial Structure and Spatial Dynamics of Regional Incomes in Greece / Burhan Can Karahasan, Vassilis Monastiriotis
    • Greece's Competitiveness: A Survey and Concluding Remarks / Ioannis Bournakis, Christopher Tsoukis.
    ISBN
    • 3319637053 ((hardback))
    • 9783319637051 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2017948279
    OCLC
    992781898
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