- EMU membership has restricted the tools for domestic macroeconomic management and has elevated the need for structural reforms to top priority.
- Prior to EMU, bond and FX markets used to punish the economy for disequilibria or inappropriate policies whereas post EMU, the previous market crises are transformed into cumulative imbalances, which are less apparent to Greek policy makers and the public.
- The major imbalances of the Greek economy is thelack of competitiveness, a large public debt, which is expected to rise further due to the demands of financing the pension system, and a high rate of unemployment, a low level of employment and income inequality.
Macroeconomic Management and the post EMU Need for Structural Reforms in Greece
Economy & Markets
09 October 2007
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