Owing to its strong dependence on exports, Germany was among the economies hit hardest
by the financial crisis. But unlike almost all other countries, Germany emerged from the crisis …

The dominant view, both on the mainstream right and on the left, holds that the Eurozone
crisis is a crisis of labour-cost competitiveness—with trade imbalances (and hence foreign …

The Eurozone crisis has been wrongly interpreted as either a crisis of fiscal profligacy or of
deteriorating unit-labor cost competitiveness (caused by rigid labor markets), or a …

In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before
the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression …

Intra-Eurozone current-account imbalances (and divergent external debt positions) cannot
be attributed to the deterioration of cost (or price) competitiveness in Europe's periphery vis …

The international economic crisis hit Ireland hard from 2007 on. Ireland's membership of the
Euro had a significant effect on the policy configuration in the run-up to the crisis, as this had …

Full article: Kicking the Can Down the Road to More Europe? Salvaging the Euro and the
Future of European Economic Governance Skip to Main Content Taylor and Francis Online …

The 21st century witnessed major changes in the financial environment surrounding bank
regulators and banks. Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment …

The current economic crisis has hit all European countries hard, but some are much more
severely affected others. The problems manifest in European peripheral countries …

In the early 2000s, the German government introduced the Hartz reforms, which deregulated
German labor markets. These reforms were praised internationally as striking a balance …