Showing posts with label Euro area debt crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro area debt crisis. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

5/1/16: Debt Pile: Advanced Economies Lead

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After some 8 years of crisis and post-crisis deleveraging, one would have expected a significant progress to be achieved in terms of red...
Monday, July 27, 2015

27/7/15: IMF Euro Area Report: Debt's a Mean Bitch…

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The IMF today released its Article IV assessment of the Euro area, so as usual, I will be blogging on the issues raised in the latest repo...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

22/7/15: Paging from the Planet Debt...

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Ah, good old Europe... Austerity, Reforms, Structural Changes, Improved Competitiveness, Return to Growth... and rising, rising, rising de...
Friday, May 8, 2015

8/5/15: BIS on Build Up of Financial Imbalances

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There is a scary, fully frightening presentation out there. Titled "The international monetary and financial system: Its Achilles hee...
Monday, January 26, 2015

26/1/15: If not Liquidity, then Debt: ECB's QE competitive limping

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I have written before, in the context of QE announcement by the ECB last week (see here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2015/01/2312015-...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

1/1/2015: Shared Liability: Debtor and Lender

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In a recent blogpost on geography of Euro area debt flows prior to the crisis, I noted the extent to which Irish (and other peripheral eur...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

10/8/2014: Can EU Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem?

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Another paper relating to debt corrections/deflations, this time covering the euro area case. " A Surplus of Ambition: Can Europe Rel...

10/8/2014: Inflating Away the Public Debt? Not so fast...

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There is a lot of talk amongst Irish and european policymakers about the big great hope for deflating public debts across euro area periph...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

22/7/2014: Remember that Fiscal Compact? Well, Don't Remind Europe...

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Remember the Fiscal Compact? Yes, the one where debt/GDP ratio should be at 60% and the countries with ratios in excess of 60% must take 1...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

13/7/2014: Household Debt Mountains

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In the earlier post ( here ) I covered IMF data on Non-Financial Corporations debt, comparing Spain and other 'peripherals' with I...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

22/8/2013: Slow Moving Sovereign Debt Crises: a new MIT Paper

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Guido Lorenzoni and Ivan Werning (LW, 2013) new paper "Slow Moving Debt Crises" (June 30, 2013, MIT Department of Economics Worki...
Monday, July 22, 2013

22/7/2013: That Growing Debt Pile...

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In the week when Irish debt/GDP pushes above 125% that some of the luminary 'green jerseyists' said it will never do, let's say...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

8/7/2013: IMF on Euro Area: Repetition in the Endless Unlearning of Reality

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IMF released its statement on 2013 Article IV Consultation with the Euro Area The Statement reads (emphasis mine): "Policy actions ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

10/4/2013: EU Commission on debt-overhang in Europe

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A new paper on the effects of debt and deleveraging in Europe was published by the EU Commission. The paper can be accessed here . Some ...
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

4/4/2013: Real Debt: European Crisis in 4 charts

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Some interesting charts from Liu, Yan and Rosenberg, Christoph B., World Economic Outlook, April 2013. IMF Working Paper No. 13/44. Availab...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

23/3/2013: And the Strong Are Yet to Become Strong: German Debt Sustainability

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A very interesting paper by Burret, Heiko T, Feld, Lars P. and Koehler, Ekkehard A., titled "Sustainability of German Fiscal Policy a...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

13/10/2012: Euro area debt crisis and fake targets

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My article for the Globe & Mail on euro area debt targets ( link here ).
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

10/10/2012: Irish Real Economic Debt - Busting Records

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Last night I came across the latest data from the IMF on the overall levels of indebtedness and leverage across a number of countries. Her...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

30/7/2012: Grazie, Sig Draghi?

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So Mr Draghi made some serious sounding pronouncements last week. The markets rallied. Over the weekend, more serious sounding soundbites c...