Crisis in Slovenia: Roots, effects, prospects

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2014-12

Author

Kržan, Marko

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The author examines the last 20 years of Slovenian economic history. He argues that export-led economic model based on depreciated domestic currency and capital controls enabled stabilization and convergence with developed EU economies until 2004. The period of debt-led growth characterized by instability and recurrent recession after 2008 is explained by dissolution of the earlier economic model after Slovenia’s accession to EU. A brief comparison is then made that reveals a striking resemblance with the case of Portugal which joined ERM about a decade earlier. From this it is inferred that the crisis is structural and that no simple return to earlier economic models could secure further convergence.

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Slovenia, Economy, Crisis, Economic development

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http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/726
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58268

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Department of Economics, Article