{"id":18016,"date":"2026-04-16T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18016"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:16:23","slug":"the-new-global-imbalances-why-care-why-now-and-what-should-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-new-global-imbalances-why-care-why-now-and-what-should-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The new global imbalances: why care, why now and what should be done?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beatrice Weder di Mauro,\u00a0Jeromin Zettelmeyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global imbalances are back: since 2018, the sums\u00a0of current account surpluses and deficits have\u00a0each increased by about 30 percent, reaching\u00a0their highest levels since 2012. History shows that\u00a0imbalances trigger trade tensions and often end in\u00a0<br>financial crises. Drawing on the 2026 CEPR-Bruegel\u00a0Paris Report, this essay analyses the\u00a0causes of, and remedies for, external\u00a0imbalances, and what countries\u00a0should do if they do not decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: Bruegel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/essay\/new-global-imbalances-why-care-why-now-and-what-should-be-done\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatrice Weder di Mauro,\u00a0Jeromin Zettelmeyer Global imbalances are back: since 2018, the sums\u00a0of current account surpluses and deficits have\u00a0each increased by about 30 percent, reaching\u00a0their highest levels since 2012. History shows that\u00a0imbalances trigger trade tensions and often end in\u00a0financial crises. Drawing on the 2026 CEPR-Bruegel\u00a0Paris Report, this essay analyses the\u00a0causes of, and remedies for, external\u00a0imbalances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-34","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18017,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions\/18017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}