Completing the Eurozone rescue: What more needs to be done?

Richard Baldwin   Daniel Gros   Luc Laeven
17 June 2010

The euro’s crisis is not over. Measures taken in May were critical but they were palliatives not a cure. The Eurozone rescue needs to be completed. A new Vox eBook that gathers the thinking of a dozen leading economists on what more needs to be done.


Completing the Eurozone rescue: What more needs to be done?

Edited by Richard Baldwin, Daniel Gros and Luc Laeven

 

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Daniel Gros on Vox Talks

Daniel Gros of CEPS talks to Viv Davies about Vox's latest eBook. While not excluding the possibility of a breakup of the eurozone, Gros discusses a potential solution for Greece and the key role of the proposed stress tests on European banks, warning that the "devil is in the detail". The interview was recorded in late June 2010.

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Completing the Eurozone rescue: What more needs to be done?

Edited by Richard Baldwin, Daniel Gros and Luc Laeven

Introduction
Richard Baldwin and Daniel Gros

  1. Drawing a line under Europe’s crisis
    Barry Eichengreen
  2. The Eurozone needs a political union, or at least elements of one
    Paul De Grauwe
  3. The Eurozone's levitation
    Charles Wyplosz
  4. Eurozone governance: What went wrong and how to repair it
    Jean Pisani-Ferry
  5. The European bicycle must accelerate
    Angel Ubide
  6. What more do European governments need to do to save the Eurozone in the medium run?
    Thomas Mayer
  7. The narrative outside of Europe about Europe’s fiscal crisis is wrong
    Avinash D. Persaud
  8. Rethinking national fiscal policies in Europe
    Philip R Lane
  9. A credible Stability and Growth Pact: Raising the bar for budgetary transparency
    Michael C. Burda and Stefan Gerlach
  10. Fiscal policy at a crossroads: The need for constrained discretion
    Antonio Fatás and Ilian Mihov
  11. Fiscal consolidation as a policy strategy to exit the global crisis
    Giancarlo Corsetti
  12. German spending is not the cure
    Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti
  13. The long shadow of the fall of the wall
    Daniel Gros

 


 


Richard Baldwin
Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva; CEPR Policy Director, and VoxEU.org Editor-in-Chief


Daniel Gros
Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels


Luc Laeven
Deputy Division Chief in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund and CEPR Research Fellow