Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201972 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7746
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone crisis countries (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain) based on over 200 past macroeconomic adjustment episodes between 1960-2010 worldwide. At its trough, between 2010 and 2015 per capita GDP had contracted on average 11 percentage points more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific country experience, are robust to a battery of alternative counterfactual definitions, and stand confirmed when using a parametric dynamic panel regression model to account more thoroughly for the business cycle. Zooming in on the potential causes, the lack of an independent monetary policy, while having contributed to a deeper recession, does not fully explain the Eurozone’s specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal austerity due to high funding costs.
Subjects: 
macroeconomic adjustment
financial crisis
Eurozone
growth
propensity score matching
JEL: 
E63
E65
F31
F32
F33
F36
F45
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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