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The Greek financial crisis: growing imbalances and sovereign spreads

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posted on 2011-05-04, 09:20 authored by Stephen G. Hall, George S. Tavlas, Heather D. Gibson
We discuss the origins of the Greek financial crisis as manifested in the growing fiscal and current-account deficits since euro-area entry in 2001. We then provide an investigation of spreads on Greek relative to German long-term government debt. Using monthly data over the period 2000 to 2010, we estimate a cointegrating relationship between spreads and their long-term fundamental determinants, and compare the spreads predicted by this estimated relationship with actual spreads. We find periods of both undershooting and overshooting of spreads compared to what is predicted by the economic fundamentals.

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Dept. of Economics, University of Leicester

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2011-05-04

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http://www.le.ac.uk/ec/research/discussion/Papers2011.html

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Papers in Economics;11/25

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