Blog Posts – Page 2 – Prof George Alogoskoufis

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Bombs, Oil and the World Economy

28/06/2025 — 1 Comment

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Trump vs Powell and the Limits of Central Bank Independence

18/04/2025 — 0 Comments

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The USA-China Trade War as a Game of Chicken

16/04/2025 — 0 Comments

What would Adam Smith say about Donald Trump’s Trade Policies

20/02/2025 — 0 Comments

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International and European Economic Prospects and the Greek Economy

31/12/2024 — 0 Comments

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The Political Transition of 1974: Institutions, Politics and the Economy of Post-War Greece

11/11/2024 — 0 Comments

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The Critical Interactions between Politics, Economics and Institutions

30/10/2024 — 0 Comments

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High Time for Difficult but Beneficial Reforms in Greece (updated)

24/04/2024 — 1 Comment

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Cycles of Globalization and the Greek Economy

09/01/2024 — 0 Comments

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The Twin Deficits in the History of Modern Greece

11/10/2023 — 0 Comments

The origins of the post-2010 Greek crisis and the pre-conditions – economic, political and institutional - for a sustained recovery of the Greek economy were examined recently by a number of prominent academics, many of whom possess extensive political experience in Greece. A selection of their contributions, first presented in a workshop at the London School of Economics, in December 2018, and a conference at the Fletcher School of Tufts University in April 2019, is collected in this e- book, edited by the organisers, George Alogoskoufis and Kevin Featherstone. With ramifications for both Greece and the Euro-Area as a whole, the contributions consider the constraints that derive from the structural linkages between the domestic and the European levels. While concerned with the core economic agenda, they place it within its political, social, and institutional contexts in order to have a more complete assessment. They ask what scope there is for recovery, the priorities that need to be set, and the prospects for their attainment. Many of the chapters have been updated to take into account developments since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. More details on the 2018 workshop and the 2019 conference that led to this e-book can be found in the link below.

This book from the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) deals with the implications of the exchange rate regimes and capital flows of the 1990s for government macroeconomic policy-making and EC policy co-ordination. Under the fixed exchange rates of the 1950s, economists and policy-makers had a much clearer idea of the nature of the external constraints. The commitment to defending the exchange rate is stronger in the 1990s than in the 1970s and 1980s, but at the same time international capital flows are far greater and freer than in the 1950s and 1960s, with many countries able to borrow almost indefinitely and on good terms on the Eurodollar market in order to finance their balance-of-payments deficits. This volume, derived from a conference organised jointly by CEPR and the Bank of Greece, deals with these issues in depth and includes both cross-country comparisons and case studies of individual countries.