{"id":2142,"date":"2011-08-16T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2011-08-16T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:18:43","slug":"current-account-imbalances-can-structural-policies-make-a-difference-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/current-account-imbalances-can-structural-policies-make-a-difference-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Current-account imbalances: Can structural policies make a difference in Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/6868\" target=\"_blank\">Bornhorst, Fabian<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/6869\" target=\"_blank\">Ivanova, Anna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The German current-account surplus peaked at 7\u00bd% of GDP in 2007, coinciding with the emergence of imbalances elsewhere. This column argues that these large imbalances in large part reflected a booming world economy rather than structural factors. It adds that any sustainable rebalancing would require an ambitious reform agenda aimed at raising Germany\u2019s potential growth with greater reliance on domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>Voxeu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/6873\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bornhorst, Fabian\u00a0&amp; Ivanova, Anna. The German current-account surplus peaked at 7\u00bd% of GDP in 2007, coinciding with the emergence of imbalances elsewhere. This column argues that these large imbalances in large part reflected a booming world economy rather than structural factors. It adds that any sustainable rebalancing would require an ambitious reform agenda aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[28,25],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-37","tag-28","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}