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Jingle bells and struggling GIPS: Comparing the Baltic and the southern euro zone’s crisis experience using the varieties of capitalism framework

Kuokštis, Vytautas (2015) Jingle bells and struggling GIPS: Comparing the Baltic and the southern euro zone’s crisis experience using the varieties of capitalism framework. Acta Oeconomica, 65 (s1). pp. 39-64. ISSN 0001-6373

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Abstract

This article compares the experience of the Baltic countries and the eurozone’s southern members, the GIPS (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain), in terms of the run-up to the Great Recession and the eurozone crisis, responses during the downturn, and the subsequent recovery (or lack thereof). It discusses numerous apparent similarities in terms of the build-up of macroeconomic vulnerabilities and the content of anti-crisis strategies pursued as well as the substantially different results of these policies. This article applies the VoC (Varieties of Capitalism) approach. To this end, it presents theoretical expectations regarding different varieties’ vulnerability to macroeconomic imbalances, preferences regarding anti-crisis policy as well as the likely outcome of the internal devaluation strategy. The article finds the VoC approach largely useful, although it is more helpful in accounting for the nature of reaction to the crisis and the outcomes of anti-crisis policy, while less so in explaining the initial accumulation of vulnerabilities.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences / társadalomtudományok > H Social Sciences (General) / társadalomtudomány általában
Depositing User: László Sallai-Tóth
Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2016 15:00
Last Modified: 31 Dec 2017 00:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/37370

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