I N V I T A T I O N

We kindly invite you to join the Lecture:

  

“Macro-economic Policy and

the Eurozone Crisis”

  

Dr. Chryssoula Papalexatou,

Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory,

European Institute, London School of Economics

 

 Date: 15^th January 2019, 19.00 -21.00

Venue: University of Macedonia Conference Room, 1^st floor

 

 

FREE ENTRY

Organizers:

-MA in Politics and Economics of Contemporary Eastern and Southeastern Europe

-Graduate Seminar in Political Science, History, Social Anthropology and Economics

 

 

* The lecture examines the origins of the Eurozone crisis and evaluates the reforms and policies implemented in response to the crisis. It focuses on the contradictions of the system of centralised monetary policy in a setting of loosely coordinated national fiscal policies, and fragmented banking sectors. Indicative questions addressed in this lecture include: Did economic theories prepare us for the Euro area crisis? Is the sovereign debt crisis of 2010 a result Euro zone's institutional design failures? Were or can these failures be corrected?