And the evidence confirms that the euro crisis is not really about sovereign debt, but about foreign debt.

ROME The euro contagion triggered by Greece s sovereign debt crisis has now infected Italy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel likes to emphasize, rightly, that one should not speak of a euro crisis, but of a debt crisis.

As for the birthplace of the euro crisis, Greece s debt will almost surely have to be restructured.

What Euro Crisis?

What Euro Crisis?

The IMF s Euro Crisis

There are three basic approaches to resolving the banking crisis (which means resolving the fiscal adjustment, sovereign debt, and euro issues simultaneously).

Second, if foreign debt is the real problem, the escalating debate about the Reinhart Rogoff results is irrelevant for the euro crisis.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel likes to emphasize, rightly, that one should not speak of a euro crisis, but of a debt crisis. If she had added that this is a crisis of both sovereign and bank debt, she would have been even more right.

The Euro at Mid Crisis

Is the Euro Crisis Over?

PRINCETON The European Union s sovereign debt crisis constitutes a fundamental threat not only to the euro, but also to democracy and public accountability.

The euro crisis can end only when debt problems on Europe s periphery can no longer threaten overall stability of the eurozone s financial system.

NEW YORK The Greek debt crisis has prompted questions about whether the euro can survive without a nearly unimaginable centralization of fiscal policy.

How to Resolve the Euro Crisis

This distinction between foreign and domestic debt is particularly important in the context of the euro crisis, because eurozone countries cannot devalue to increase exports if this is required to service foreign debt.

Verbal assurances have been the European Union s preferred currency in tackling the euro crisis, but words now have as little value as Greece s sovereign debt.

The euro crisis followed a similar pattern.

Will the Euro Survive the Current Crisis?

Europe s leaders should refer to a paper by Otmar Issing, The Euro A Currency Without a State, published in December 2008, before the debt crisis erupted.

Germany s third illusion is that the current crisis is ultimately a euro crisis.

America s First Debt Crisis

That was the root cause of today s euro crisis.

The US debt ceiling fiasco has raised doubts in the minds of central bankers about the advisability of holding dollars, while Europe s failure to resolve its sovereign debt crisis continues to fuel doubt that the euro can survive.

The interest rates on the euro denominated sovereign debt of the twelve euro zone governments are all very similar.

There is a parallel between the ongoing euro crisis and the international banking crisis of 1982.

A debt crisis is not inevitable.

(c) External debt crisis and development.

(c) External debt crisis and development.

The euro crisis thus offers Europe an opportunity to reestablish trust.

Given the exposure of some euro zone states such as Austria, this crisis will also affect the euro area directly.

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The sovereign debt crisis is well known.

Will The US Have A Debt Crisis ?

(c) External debt crisis and development (continued)

The euro crisis is a complex mixture of banking and sovereign debt problems, as well as divergences in economic performance that have given rise to balance of payments imbalances within the eurozone.

There is a close parallel between the euro crisis and the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, when the International Monetary Fund saved the international financial system by lending just enough money to the heavily indebted countries to enable them to avoid default.

The euro crisis, however, has turned the EU into something radically different.

The euro crisis has now turned the EU into something radically different.

But the eurozone debt crisis has distinctive features.

Draft resolution on external debt crisis and development