Greece's Sovereign Debt Crisis
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Case Code: ECON035 Case Length: 16 Pages Period: 2004-2010 Pub Date: 2011 Teaching Note: Not Available |
Price: Rs.400 Organization : - Industry : - Countries : Greece, Europe Themes: Economics |
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The Greek Economy
After Greece became independent, it started cultivating cash crops and this improved the agriculture sector. It also gave a boost to Greece's trade with other countries. However, in 1931, the Great Depression had an adverse effect on the economy...
Debt Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Greece had a long history of financial troubles, before adopting the euro as its currency. Having joined the Euro zone in 2001, Greece benefited from the more stable euro currency that replaced the Drachma (which had been struggling)...
Greece Debt Crisis and the EU
The debt crisis in Greece and the potential of the crisis to engulf other European economies threatened the prospects of a global economic recovery from the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. Greece's debt burden sparked fears among the investors of sovereign default, further affecting the economies of highly leveraged Euro zone nations...
Measures to Rescue Greece
George Papandreou told the Greek Parliament that immediate measures were required to prevent the economy from falling into a debt crisis. In early March 2010, the bond issue send positive signals to the markets, where Athens sold €5 billion in 10-year bonds and in turn received orders for three times that amount...
Exhibits
Exhibit I: Public Debt and Budget Deficit as % of GDP
Exhibit II: Gross Debt and GDP
Exhibit III: Annual % Change of GDP
Exhibit IV: EU Limit on Budget Deficit and Greece's Excess
Exhibit V: Government Debt, Deficits and Sovereign Credit Premia of Various EU Countries
Exhibit VI: 5 Year Credit-Default Swaps of Greece
Exhibit VII: Largest Budget Deficits in EU for 2009
Exhibit VIII: Public Debt as % of GDP, 2009
Exhibit IX: Loss in the Value of Euro
Exhibit X: Government Debt of Various EU Countries
Exhibit XI: Interest Rates on Bond Offerings Over a Decade
Exhibit XII: IMF Packages Authorised
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