Conditionality by other means: EU involvement in Italy’s structural reforms in the sovereign debt crisis

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Sacchi
Author(s):  
Nauro F. Campos ◽  
Paul De Grauwe ◽  
Yuemei Ji

Structural reform policies move like the business cycle. There are moments when these are implemented with great fervour and others when they are put on the back burner or even dismantled. After the global financial crisis, and in particular the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, many countries were forced by creditor countries or were self-imposed to apply deep reforms to their product markets and especially to their labour markets. Now that Europe is recovering, the pressure to implement structural reforms has abated....


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 822-842
Author(s):  
Luca Lionello

This article deals with the project of additional budgetary capacity for the Eurozone by investigating its meaning, features and feasibility. The different proposals that have been put forward hitherto describe it as a stabilisation tool aimed at fostering structural reforms and absorbing economic shocks to ensure the resilience of the EMU as a whole. This article will focus on three main issues. First, it will analyse why the need for additional budgetary capacity has arisen during the sovereign debt crisis. Second, it will describe how the additional budgetary capacity would realistically shape up in practice, taking into consideration both its possible revenues and objectives. The final part will then consider the main legal challenges that the creation of an additional budgetary capacity will have to deal with: the identification of the legal basis, the impact on the principle of conferral, the repression of moral hazard behaviours and the creation of an efficient mechanism of democratic control.


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 3255-3260
Author(s):  
Stelian Stancu ◽  
Alexandra Maria Constantin

Instilment, on a European level, of a state incompatible with the state of stability on a macroeconomic level and in the financial-banking system lead to continuous growth of vulnerability of European economies, situated at the verge of an outburst of sovereign debt crises. In this context, the current papers main objective is to produce a study regarding the vulnerability of European economies faced with potential outburst of sovereign debt crisis, which implies quantitative analysis of the impact of sovereign debt on the sensitivity of the European Unions economies. The paper also entails the following specific objectives: completing an introduction in the current European economic context, conceptualization of the notion of “sovereign debt crisis, presenting the methodology and obtained empirical results, as well as exposition of the conclusions.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Altddrfer ◽  
Carlos A. De las Salas ◽  
Andre Guettler ◽  
Gunter LLffler

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