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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 crisi...
We use a simple model to show that there is a positive relationship between monetary policy preferences for output stability, real rigidity and macroeconomic persistence. This result has two non-trivial implications. First it suggests that output stabilization may be a less desirable policy target since it generates real rigidity and macroeconomic persistence. Second, it provides a theoretical rationale as to why models in which monetary policy does not respond to output have been typically unable to replicate the persistence observed in real data.