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Patrick Artus

What does the euro zone lack to prevent public debt crises?

The recent crisis in Italy shows that public debt crises can still occur in the euro zone and that , further , there is contagion: the rise in Italian interest rates spread to Spain and Portugal. How can the recurrence of debt crises, which weaken the euro-zone economy , be prev ented ? In the case of a liquidity crisis and not a solvency crisis , there needs to be a mechanism to correct liquidity crises and prevent contagion to the other countries ( a euro-zone IMF) . Solvency crises must be averted or at least stemmed either through stricter fiscal rules to prevent such crises or through a mechanism to resolve them if they cannot be averted.
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