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Political Stability and Fianancial Crisis: What the data say for the European Union’s countries

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  • Evangelos Vasileiou

    (Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece)

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This paper tries to examine in detail political stability in the European Union’s (EU) countries during the period 2002-12. Firstly, it examines the causality relationship between political stability and economic growth, which is an issue that has puzzled scholars for decades. Using the Granger causality test the empirical findings suggest that in the case of the EU’s countries, causality is one directional, moving from political stability to economic growth. Secondly, it examines the factors that affect political stability. Using the fixed effects panel data model, we may suggest that the long term recession, the increased unemployment ratios and the high levels of inflation significantly threaten political stability. However, there are other factors that are not exclusively due to economics, such as transparency, public health care, education etc., which may significantly reduce the previously mentioned consequences. Finally, this study suggests some reforms of the EU’s regulation according to the migration policy that may smooth social and humanitarian disparities.

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  • Evangelos Vasileiou, 2014. "Political Stability and Fianancial Crisis: What the data say for the European Union’s countries," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 3(1), pages 143-169, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:rbs:ijbrss:v:3:y:2014:i:1:p:143-169
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    Cited by:

    1. Lotfali Agheli, 2017. "Political Stability, Misery Index and Institutional Quality: Case Study of Middle East and North Africa," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 30-46.
    2. Militiades N. Georgiou & Nicholas Kyriazis & Emmanouil M. L. Economou, 2015. "Democracy, Political Stability and Economic performance. A Panel Data Analysis," Journal of Risk & Control, Risk Market Journals, vol. 2(1), pages 1-18.
    3. Vasileiou Evangelos, 2017. "Why do we examine calendar anomalies only in financial markets? Month effect evidence from the Greek banking industry," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 99-114, April.

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