Matthias Morys
„The gold standard, fiscal dominance and financial supervision in Greece and South-East Europe, 1841–1939“
13.02.2020
Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2020, hält Mathias Morys (University of York) im Rahmen der Seminarreihe des AB Ökonomie am IOS einen Vortrag zum Thema
„The gold standard, fiscal dominance and financial supervision in Greece and South-East Europe, 1841–1939“
Beginn: 13:30 Uhr in Raum 109, IOS, Landshuterstr. 4, 09047 Regensburg
Abstract:
We add a historical and regional dimension to the debate on the Greek debt crisis by analysing repeated cycles of entry and exit from the gold standard, government default, and financial supervision for four South-East European countries from political independence to World War II. The prevailing pattern of fiscal dominance was broken only under financial supervision, when conditionality scaled back the treasury’s influence; only then were central banks able to stabilize their exchange rates.
A political economy analysis for Greece finds that financial supervision was politically acceptable as it made successfully adhering to gold more likely in the view of contemporaries.
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