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The creation of euro area financial safety nets

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  • Michiel Bijlsma
  • Shahin Vallée

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The financial crisis has exposed the need to devise stronger and broader international and regional safety nets in order to deal with economic and financial shocks and allow for countries to adjust. The euro area has developed several such mechanisms over the last couple of years through a process of trial and error and gradual enhancement and expansion. Their overall architecture remains imperfect and leaves areas of vulnerabilities. This paper...

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  • Michiel Bijlsma & Shahin Vallée, 2012. "The creation of euro area financial safety nets," Working Papers 732, Bruegel.
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