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100 1 _aCardinale, Ivano
245 1 0 _aExploring Sectoral Conflicts of Interest in the Eurozone: A Structural Political Economy Approach
260 _aWien :
_bWiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw),
_c2016.
300 _a42 S.,
_b5 Figures,
_c30cm.
490 1 _awiiw Essays and Occasional Papers
_v3
520 _aSummary This paper develops a ‘structural political economy’ approach to two fundamental tensions that emerged as the eurozone crisis unfolded: real exchange rate misalignments and external debt build-up. The approach builds on a classical legacy going back to Francois Quesnay, who conceptualised interdependent sectors as being also socio-political groups. In the context of the European integration process, we analyse the overlapping economic and political dimensions of how sectoral interests evolved within and across countries with regard to real exchange rate adjustments and potential debt write-offs. Central to our analysis is the interplay between sectors’ particular interests and their interest in preserving the ‘viability’ of the systems to which they belong (regional, national, supranational). The sectoral perspective developed in this paper complements, enriches and often questions results usually obtained from country-level political economy analyses. In the last section of the paper we show how sectoral and country-level interests are at play within the institutional set-up of a monetary union, and how this can lead to stances in favour of further integration or disintegration. 
650 _astructural political economy
650 _aeurozone crisis
650 _aexternal imbalances
650 _aexternal debt
650 _asectoral interests
650 _asystemic interest
650 _anationalist bias
650 _achallenges of European integration
690 _aMacroeconomic Analysis and Policy
690 _aLabour, Migration and Income Distribution
690 _aInternational Trade, Competitiveness and FDI
700 1 _aLandesmann, Michael
830 0 _v3
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_twiiw Essays and Occasional Papers
856 4 0 _uhttps://wiiw.ac.at/p-4100.html
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