Causes & Consequences of the Financial Crisis: Infographics
The main conclusions of nearly 5 years of research in the framework of WP3 – Causes and consequences of the financial crisis have been summed up under the form of the…
Policies for Rebalancing China’s Economy and Their Global Impact
This policy brief draws on FESSUD Working Paper No. 144, “Assessing China’s Economic and Financial Prospects within the Context of Global Imbalances”. It highlights how the country could rebalance its…
The effects of the crisis on the convergence/divergence in the Euro area
This policy brief summarizes the findings of a study on the existence of a convergence/divergence among the Euro economies and on the impact of the Great Recession as well as the differences…
Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development – Press release
Brussels, 13 September 2016 – A wide range of economists, social scientists and policy-makers from around Europe and South Africa will gather in Brussels on 27-28 September 2016 to…
The operation of budgets constraints in the Euroarea
Download Briefing Note 1: ‘The operation of budgets constraints in the Euroarea‘
By Malcolm Sawyer, coordinator of the FESSUD project from the University of Leeds, UK
Banking risk in France, Germany and Spain
In this analysis we review financial systems on three different levels. First, we look at overall financial stress and stress in the sovereign bond market. Then, we look closer at…
Making the European Union a viable construction
The recent result of the UK referendum on exiting the European Union (EU) is the more visible sign of the shortcomings and fragmentation of the Union’s political, institutional and policy…
EU Financial integration and the role of the European Central Bank
The economic and financial crisis that still affects most European countries has raised growing concerns about the endurance of the integration process of the European Union (EU), and especially of…
Structures of ownership in the financial sector
The analysis of the structure of ownership in the financial sector in the old and new EU Member States is particularly important for the proper understanding of the scale and…
Regime changes in the course of the crisis: tendencies towards mercantilism and economic policy challenges
In the present policy brief, we review the macroeconomic regimes before and after the financial and economic crises and detect a reinforced tendency towards export-led mercantilist strategies, which means a…
Workshop on German economic system with policy makers and researchers from Vietnam at the Friedrich Ebert Foundations
FESSUD researchers Daniel Detzer and Hansjörg Herr contributed to a workshop for a Vietnamese delegation of the National Assembly and the national project “Regulation of Financial Markets” of the Socialist…
Fiscal policies in the European Union before and after the financial crisis
Download Briefing Note 2: ‘Fiscal policies in the European Union before and after the financial crisis‘ By Jesús Ferreiro, Catalina Gálvez and Ana González from the University of the Basque Country…
The processes of financialisation
Financialisation involves the growth of the financial sector in the economic, the social and the political spheres. The processes of financialisation have major consequences for economic performance, social well-being and…
Developments in Economic Theory and Policy – 13th conference
FESSUD partner, the Department of Applied Economics of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (ESP), organized the 13th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy together with the Cambridge…
