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Fiscal Consolidation in the Euro Crisis Politico-economic and Institutional Causes

Fiscal Consolidation in the Euro Crisis

Kai Guthmann

Fiscal Consolidation in the Euro Crisis Politico-economic and Institutional Causes

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Kai Guthmann Bern, Switzerland

ISBN 978-3-030-57767-4 ISBN 978-3-030-57768-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57768-1

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Acknowledgements

This book corresponds to my doctoral thesis submitted at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Bern, Switzerland. It is dedicated to those who made it possible. From a mainly academic and professional perspective, I am deeply grateful to Prof. Dr. Klaus Armingeon, for his unwavering support and flexibility, to Prof. Dr. Uwe Wagschal, for his role as my second advisor, and to Dr. David Weisstanner, for being an outstanding colleague and co-author of other publications. From a more fundamental personal perspective I would like to thank my parents Eva and Bernhard Guthmann, my sister Anke Lütkepohl, my nephew Joris and my niece Fine, and my friend Carolina Voß. Last but not least, I am grateful to many others who, in one way or the other, did play a role in enabling me to finish this book, such as, to name just a few, Carolin Rapp, Franzisca Schmoker, Bianca Lüthi, and Mandy Beeler.

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2 Fiscal Adjustment in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .