Greece
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What Kind of Brexit, What Kind of European Union?
Feb 9, 2017 | 04:00—05:30
A discussion on Brexit with Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics.
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Fiscal Austerity & Greece
Sep 24, 2015
Professor Richard Portes discusses the problems of Europe and then specifically drills down into Greece itself.
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Fixing the Eurozone
Jul 1, 2015
Greece: reculer pour mieux sauter
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Greece and the Eurozone
Apr 14, 2015
Yanis Varoufakis and Joseph Stiglitz discuss Greece’s financial challenges and the associated Eurozone politics in this exclusive conversation.
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Identifying Weaknesses in the Eurozone
Dec 19, 2014
How should the Eurozone handle unemployment and other immediate hurdles?
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Conference paper
Myths, Mix-ups and Mishandlings: What Caused the Eurozone Crisis?
Jul 2015
The Eurozone crisis has been wrongly interpreted as either a crisis of fiscal profligacy or of deteriorating unit-labour cost competitiveness (caused by rigid labour markets), or a combination of both.
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Working paper
Laid Low: The IMF, The Eurozone and the First Rescue of Greece
Apr 2015
As Greece descended into a financial maelstrom in the spring of 2010, a small group of staffers at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held top-secret talks with officials from the German and French finance ministries to discuss the idea of restructuring Greece’s debt.
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Report
IMF Country Report 15/165: Greek Debt Sustainability Analysis
Jun 2015
According to Reuters, Eurozone officials attempted to suppress the publication of this report.
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Working Paper Series
Crisis and Recovery in the German Economy: The Real Lessons
Mar 2014
Owing to its strong dependence on exports, Germany was among the economies hit hardest by the financial crisis.
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Conference paper
Debt Restructuring versus Monetary Easing: The Eurozone Experiment
Mar 2014
Since the outbreak of the Greek debt crisis at the end of 2009, the Eurozone finds itself in an unprecedented debt crisis.
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Austerity without debt relief courts new unrest in Greece
May 9, 2016
Economist James K. Galbraith warns that ‘unrealistic expectations’ by Athens’ creditors is a recipe for turmoil
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Jim Chanos on What Lies Ahead for Greece
Sep 18, 2015
As Greece heads to the polls, a look back at the crisis and what the future will bring.
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Joseph Stiglitz: “Deep-seatedly wrong” economic thinking is killing Greece
Aug 19, 2015
The latest austerity deal is terrible for Greece and Europe.
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Greece, Goldman Sachs, and the Dark Side of International Finance
Jul 28, 2015
Dubious transactions and flimsy accounting standards need scrutiny.
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Is it Just a Greek Problem?
Aug 13, 2015
In the last couple of months, Greece has once again become the center of attention of politicians, academics, and the general public. The debate has, for a large part, focused on Greece’s fiscal deficit as if it were just a self-inflicted Greek problem. But is it?