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Why the Euro crisis is the key to a stronger Europe

by Olaf Storbeck on 10/29/2012

This essay originally appeared in the first issue of “TLQ - The Digital Magazine For Thought …

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Filed under Banking, Economic Policy, Financial Crisis, Monetary Policy

Tagged as Euro, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mario Draghi, Spain

Europe's Austerity Pipe Dreams

by Olaf Storbeck on 09/24/2011

Economic history suggests that Europe won’t be able to fulfil its budgetary pledges. A …

Filed under Economic Policy, Financial Crisis

Tagged as Austerity, economic growth, fiscal consolidation, Germany, Greece, Gross domestic product, International Monetary Fund, Italy, Nicolas Sarkozy, spending cuts, United States

Save the Euro, for God's sake!

by Olaf Storbeck on 07/20/2011

I think this really deserves some publicity.
Twelve european top economists just published a dramatic …

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Tagged as CEPR, debt crisis, default, ECB, Euro, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, Eurozone, Francesco Giavazzi, Greece, Guido Tabellini, Italy, Richard Portes, single currency, Spain, Tito Boeri, Wolfgang Schäuble

EBA stress test: Individual PIIGS exposure for all 90 banks

by Olaf Storbeck on 07/18/2011

When the European Banking Authority (EBA) published their stress test results last Friday, they …

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Tagged as banking sector, default, EBA, EU, Euro, Euro area, European Banking Authority, exposure, financial crisis, Greece, haircut, Ireland, Italy, List of banks in Greece, PIGS, PIIGS, Portugal, sovereign debt, sovereign debt ciris, Spain, stress tests

PIIGS exposure of individual German banks

by Olaf Storbeck on 07/17/2011

It was a little bit inconvenient because I had to gather the data from …

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Tagged as bonds, Commerzbank, debt, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, EBA, European Central Bank, European Union, exposure, German Banks, Greece, Italy, PIGS, Portugal, Spain, stress test