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Wheels Within Wheels Within Wheels: The Importance Of Capital Inflows In The Origin Of The Spanish Financial Crisis, Rafael Fernandez, Clara GarcíA Mar 2016

Wheels Within Wheels Within Wheels: The Importance Of Capital Inflows In The Origin Of The Spanish Financial Crisis, Rafael Fernandez, Clara GarcíA

PERI Working Papers

With the creation of the Euro, the Spanish economy established an exchange rate regime similar to that adopted by many emerging economies during the 1990s. At the same time, the Eurozone as a whole adopted a currency system with features similar to the U.S. currency regime. In emerging economies, as in the U.S. economy, the adoption of these models was accompanied by strong growth in capital inflows, as well as severe financial (mostly banking) and/or macroeconomic (mostly trade) imbalances. Several authors have linked capital inflows with imbalances as cause and effect. This work uses some of those arguments, along with …


United In Difficulty: The European Union’S Use Of Shared Problems As A Way To Encourage Unity, Grace Cleary Jan 2012

United In Difficulty: The European Union’S Use Of Shared Problems As A Way To Encourage Unity, Grace Cleary

CHESS Student Research Reports

Since the European Union's inception, it has invested considerable resources into cultural programs aimed at fostering a sense of shared European heritage. However, these efforts have always been balanced alongside the need to leave space for diversity within and across EU nations. In this paper, which highlights the findings of my MA thesis, I examine the European Capital of Culture (ECC), which I studied in Córdoba, Spain during the spring of 2011. I look at how European identity is being defined in a specific context, and in particular how the contest is refocusing on new forms of shared heritage by …


"No Cops, No Journos, No Anthropologists": Fieldwork Challenges In Occupied Barcelona, Justin Ak Helepololei Jan 2012

"No Cops, No Journos, No Anthropologists": Fieldwork Challenges In Occupied Barcelona, Justin Ak Helepololei

CHESS Student Research Reports

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