The Euro Crisis in the Mirror of the EMS: How Tying Odysseus to the Mast Avoided the Sirens but Led Him to Charybdis

Giancarlo Corsetti, Barry Eichengreen, Galina Hale and Eric Tallman
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Eric Tallman: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Open Economies Review, 2020, vol. 31, issue 2, No 2, 219-236

Abstract: Abstract Why was recovery from the euro area crisis delayed for a decade? The explanation lies in the absence of credible and timely policies to backstop financial intermediaries and sovereign debt markets. In this paper we add light and color to this analysis, contrasting recent experience with the 1992–3 crisis in the European Monetary System, when national central banks and treasuries more successfully provided this backstop. In the more recent episode, the incomplete development of the euro area constrained the ability of the ECB and other European institutions to do likewise.

Keywords: Financial crisis; Currency crisis; Euro; European Monetary System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F0 N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Working Paper: The Euro Crisis in the Mirror of the EMS: How Tying Odysseus to the Mast Avoided the Sirens but Led Him to Charybdis (2020)
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