The European financial crisis : debt, growth, and economic policy /

The European debt crisis has posed a challenge for many people to understand, both non-Europeans and Europeans alike. Even economists, finance specialists, and market commentators are often uncertain of its causes or in the interpretation of events ongoing, or of past events that have taken place th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godby, Robert., (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:2014 digital library.
Economics collection.
Subjects:
EU
ECB
IMF
Online Access:Click to View
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Introduction: understanding the problem. Why is this so hard?
  • 1. Introduction: where there's smoke, there's fire
  • Part II. The imperfect architecture of the Eurozone
  • 2. The flawed governmental architecture of the Eurozone
  • 3. The flawed economic architecture of the Eurozone
  • 4. The flawed sociopolitical architecture of the Eurozone
  • Part III. Evolution of the Euro crisis
  • 5. Flight of the bumblebee: precrisis structural imbalances and their influence in the Eurozone
  • 6. Misperception of European risk, market reactions, and policy response: a timeline of the Euro crisis
  • Part IV. Moving forward
  • 7. Where are we now?
  • 8. What happens next?
  • 9. From forest fires to bumblebees and hammers and nails, lessons from the Euro crisis
  • Notes
  • References
  • About the author
  • Index.