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Von der Euroeinführung zur Schuldenkrise: Ergebnisse einer Wachstumszerlegung für ausgewählte Länder des Euroraums

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  • Philipp an de Meulen
  • Torsten Schmidt

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In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the Euro Area turned into a deep financial and currency crisis. Depending on their economic structures, however, member countries have been affected in different ways. Performing a growth accounting for Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, it turns out that large capital investments paved the way for growth in pre-crisis years. While this led to productivity-enhancing structural change in Greece and Portugal, overcapacities were created in the Spanish construction sector. Eliminating these overcapacities led to declining production in post-crisis years albeit to a highly different extent in the considered countries. Despite employment being still on the decline in several countries, structural reforms should be pursued to stop further labor and capital outflow. In Folge der Großen Regression wurde im Euroraum eine Finanz- und Währungskrise ausgelöst, deren unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auch in der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsstrukturen seit der Euroeinführung begründet sind. In diesem Aufsatz wird ein Growth Accounting für die Volkswirtschaften Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien Griechenland und Portugal durchgeführt. Das Wachstum der Jahre 2000-2007 basiert vornehmlich auf kräftigen Kapitalinvestitionen, die in Griechenland und Portugal für einen produktivitätssteigernden strukturellen Wandel genutzt wurden, während vor allem in Spanien Überkapazitäten im Bausektor gebildet wurden. Der Abbau dieser Überkapazitäten führte in den Jahren nach 2008 zu unterschiedlich tiefen Produktionseinbrüchen. Trotz der Einleitung struktureller Reformen verzögert sich der Wiederaufbau der Beschäftigung bislang. Ein Aufrechterhalten des Reformprozesses scheint jedoch geboten, um eine bereits begonnene Abwanderung des Kapitals und des Arbeitskräftepotentials einzudämmen.

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  • Philipp an de Meulen & Torsten Schmidt, 2013. "Von der Euroeinführung zur Schuldenkrise: Ergebnisse einer Wachstumszerlegung für ausgewählte Länder des Euroraums," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 82(2), pages 77-96.
  • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwvjh:82-2-7
    DOI: 10.3790/vjh.82.2.77
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    1. Barabas, György & Gebhardt, Heinz & Schmidt, Torsten & Weyerstraß, Klaus, 2013. "Projektion der mittelfristigen Wirtschaftsentwicklung bis 2018: Gleichgewichtigeres weltwirtschaftliches Wachstum in der mittleren Frist," RWI Konjunkturberichte, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, vol. 64(3), pages 105-115.
    2. Roland Döhrn & Philipp an de Meulen & Daniela Grozea-Helmenstein & Tobias Kitlinksi & Torsten Schmidt & Simeon Vosen & Lina Zwick, 2013. "Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung im Ausland: Wieder stärkere Expansion in den Industrieländern," RWI Konjunkturbericht, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, pages 36, 09.
    3. Döhrn, Roland & an de Meulen, Philipp & Grozea-Helmenstein, Daniela & Rujin, Svetlana & Schmidt, Torsten & Zwick, Lina, 2014. "Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung im Ausland: Stärkere Belebung der Weltkonjunktur," RWI Konjunkturberichte, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, vol. 65(1), pages 5-36.
    4. György Barabas & Heinz Gebhardt & Torsten Schmidt & Klaus Weyerstraß, 2013. "Projektion der mittelfristigen Wirtschaftsentwicklung bis 2018: Gleichgewichtigeres weltwirtschaftliches Wachstum in der mittleren Frist," RWI Konjunkturbericht, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, pages 11, 09.
    5. Roland Döhrn & Philipp an de Meulen & Daniela Grozea-Helmenstein & Svetlana Rujin & Torsten Schmidt & Lina Zwick, 2014. "Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung im Ausland: Stärkere Belebung der Weltkonjunktur," RWI Konjunkturbericht, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, pages 32, 03.
    6. Döhrn, Roland & an de Meulen, Philipp & Grozea-Helmenstein, Daniela & Kitlinski, Tobias & Schmidt, Torsten & Vosen, Simeon & Zwick, Lina, 2013. "Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung im Ausland: Wieder stärkere Expansion in den Industrieländern," RWI Konjunkturberichte, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, vol. 64(3), pages 5-40.

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    Keywords

    Euro area crisis; growth accounting; productivity; structural change;
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    JEL classification:

    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O49 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Other
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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