The impact of the Great Recession on the European Union countries

Jesus Ferreiro (), Catalina Galvez, Carmen Gomez () and Ana González Flores
Additional contact information
Catalina Galvez: Department of Applied Economics V, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

Working papers from Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development (FESSUD) Project

Abstract: Although the Great Recession has been a global phenomenon affecting most developed (and emerging) economies, in the case of the European Union (EU), there are significant differences among EU individual countries and among EU groups of countries, like euro and non-euro countries regarding the depth and duration of the crisis. The paper analyses the effects of the economic and financial crisis on a set of seventeen economic and financial variables, comparing the economic performance of the EU economies before and after the onset of the crisis. The analysis confirms the hypotheses, first, of the existence of significant differences on the performance during the crisis of the EU economies, and, second, that the EU economies most affected by the crisis have been the euro countries, mainly those that join the euro after 1999. In this sense, and focusing on the Eurozone, the paper shows a rising divergence in the macroeconomic performance of euro countries, a divergence process that has been amplified during the Great Recession.

Keywords: Great Recession; economic and financial crisis; Great Recession; European Union; Eurozone; convergence macroeconomic imbalances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 O52 O57 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 80 pages
Date: 2016-01-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec and nep-fdg
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://fessud.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Impact ... orking-paper-150.pdf Full text

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fes:wpaper:wpaper150

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working papers from Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development (FESSUD) Project FESSUD Co-ordinator (Malcolm Sawyer) Leeds University Business School Maurice Keyworth Buidling Leeds LS2 9JT.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Helen Evans ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).