European Debt Crisis: What Is The Way Out

The current European debt crisis is just bringing to the fore well-defined cracks in the Eurozone’s construction. Fiscal discipline was left in the careless hands of national governments, banking regulation and supervision was delegated to national authorities more interested in promoting national champions than in completing the Single Market. Moreover, crisis management was masterminded not by the Commission but by national governments. This leaves panicked policymakers with the firm view that economics is largely useless and that any policy can be pursued if it makes good political sense.

Read more in CASE Network E-brief 04/2011 "European Debt Crisis: What Is The Way Out" by Charles Wyplosz.