The Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Europe

The authors uncover the roots of the eurozone crisis, focusing on how this can be solved against the backdrop of a very deep financial and economic crisis and its strong social impact. Looking at the impact of the financial crisis on the eurozone, they explore the European Union's recent and future developments.

"As the conventional wisdom goes, the euro crisis resulted from the combination of many factors: the subprime/global financial crisis, real estate bubbles, excessive government deficits, the debts of some countries of the eurozone and so on. This book goes beyond these standard rationales. Instead, it highlights how the loss of competitiveness in Southern countries led to a widely neglected but highly influential phenomenon, namely, a sharp increase in external debt. By analyzing all aspects of the euro crisis, this work raises fundamental questions about the relevance and sustainability of the euro for a group of countries whose competitiveness and unit labour costs vary so widely. This book makes a valuable contribution by offering a unique perspective on efforts to understand the euro crisis." - Serge Rey, University of PAU

"This volume examines the eurozone crisis in depth, from all points of view, and in a scholarly manner (but intelligible also by the layman). A gem is the chapter by the late Jerome Stein on the diversity of debt crises in Europe, based on his NATREX model. I highly recommend this book not only to professionals, but also to the general public of interested persons." - Giancarlo Gandolfo, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy

Autorentext
Anton Hemerijck, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bodo Herzog, Reutlingen-University, Germany Brigitte Young, University of Muenster, Germany Fabian Zuleeg, European Policy Centre, Belgium Francesco Nicoli, European Policy Centre, Belgium Giorgio Basevi, University of Bologna, Italy Jerome L. Stein, Brown University, USA Jonathan Story, INSEAD, France Julius Horvath, Central European University, Hungary Karlhans Sauernheimer, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany Kunibert Raffer, University of Vienna, Austria Martin Suster, National Bank of Slovakia, Bratislava Michael R. Blomenhofer, Kroll, Singapore Pradumna B. Rana, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Radu Vranceanu, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Daniel Daianu and Rajeesh Kumar 2. Overview: Analytics of the Euro Area Crisis; Carlo D'Adda and Giorgio Basevi PART I: ECONOMIC IMBALANCES AND THE EURO AREA CRISIS 3. The Diversity of Debt Crises in Europe; Jerome Stein 4. European Sovereign debt Crisis and the Euro'; Julius Horvath and Martin Suster 5. Economic Policies and the debt/GDP Constraint: The European Challenge'; Radu Vranceanu 6. Current Account Imbalances in the Eurozone: Causes, Remedies and the Role of the ECB; Karhans Sauernheimer PART II: CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN THE EURO AREA: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND POLITICS 7. The Euro Crisis and German Primacy; Jonathan Story 8. The Power of Ordoliberalism in the Eurozone Crisis Management; Brigitte Young 9. Italy and the Euro; Carlo D'Adda 10. Turning a Small Problem into Catastrophe: The Case of Greece; Kunibert Raffer 11. The Eurozone crisis. A Perspective from and Impact on Asia; Pradumna B. Rana and Michael R. Blomenhofer PART III: THE EURO AREA: LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE 12. The EMU is No One-Way-Street: Back to the Roots!; Bodo Herzog 13. Changing Welfare States and the Euro Crisis; Anton Hemerijck 14. The long Term Implications of the Euro Crisis for European Integration: A Deeper Union of Fragmentation; Francesco Nicoli and Fabian Zuleeg 15; The Euro Area : Repairing A Flawed Design and Its Policy Arrangements; Daniel Daianu 16. Afterword: Summing up: The Crisis and Europe's Future; Daniel Daianu and Rajeesh Kumar