Sofia A Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1129536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia A Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PÉREZ S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7679-8819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Pandemic and the Long Shadow of Austerity in Southern Europe
Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal have suffered some of Europe’s worst health outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic. The same countries also bore the brunt of the European sovereign debt crisis a decade earlier, when they were forced to undertake severe budget austerity measures in return for financial support from European institutions. Austerity left their economies and health care systems weakened when the pandemic arrived. Yet they were able to …
Competitiveness Revisited: Labour Costs, Financial Flows and the Case of Italy
Explanations of Italy's and Germany's position within the Eurozone commonly focus on trade 'competitiveness,' a concept measured in terms of unit labour costs. This trade-centric view offers a poor explanation for the evolution of the two countries external debt levels following the adoption of the Euro. It also fails to explain the external financial fragility that Italy has repeatedly experienced in the period since 2010. Both outcomes are bett…
Immigration Policy
Finance and the macroeconomy: The politics of regulatory reform in Europe
This article analyses major changes in the regulation of the financial sector across Europe over the last three decades. The authors explain the timing of major regulatory variation in regulatory outcomes across five countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) in terms of political calculations on the part of elected élites that involve the relationship of financial regulation to other policy areas (including monetary policy and pension…
Constraint or motor? Monetary integration and the construction of a social model in Spain
Spain's inclusion in 1999 among the first wave of countries participating in the eurozone defied the predictions of many observers who just a few years earlier would have deemed such an outcome improbable. A late entrant into the European Community (EC), the country had been plagued by higher than average inflation and by levels of unemployment that well exceeded those of the rest of the European Union (EU). Its system of labor market regulation,…
Monetary Union and Wage Bargaining Institutions in the EU: Extrapolating from Some Member State Experiences
This article considers the question of how monetary union in the EU is likely to impact the preferences of governments, employers, and unions regarding the organization of wage bargaining. European Monetary Union involves a decentralization of wage bargaining (centered at the national level) in relation to monetary policy (centralized at the European level). Drawing on recent literature and on the experience of two member states (Italy and Spain)…
From Decentralization to Reorganization: Explaining the Return to National Bargaining in Italy and Spain
In the 1980s the concept of social, democratic, or neo corporatism and the related concept of social concertation became the inspiration for an extensive literature on the role of collective bargaining in market economies. Some of this literature seemed to show that centralized bargaining among organized social actors (employers' associations and labor unions) and governments could mitigate economic tradeoffs by allowing these actors to coordinat…
From Labor to Finance: Understanding the Failure of Socialist Economic Policies in Spain
This article seeks to explain the Spanish Socialist Party's (PSOE's) failure to reverse Spain's dismal employment record during the course of its long government tenure from 1982 until 1996. Most efforts to explain Spain's position at the extreme of the unemployment spectrum in Europe follow the prevalent tendency in the comparative political economy literature by giving causal primacy to labor market institutions. This article challenges this la…
Banking on Privilege: The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform
Systemic Explanations, Divergent Outcomes: The Politics of FinancialLiberalization in France and Spain
This article challenges the adequacy of prevalent market-driven models of regulatory change, and more specifically, the stipulation that international market integration will lead governments undertaking financial liberalization in formerly interventionist states to carry out adequate market reforms. It does so through an analysis of financial regulation in two European countries: France and Spain. The article offers an integrated historical pers…
From Decentralization to Reorganization: Explaining the Return to National Bargaining in Italy and Spain
In the 1980s the concept of social, democratic, or neo corporatism and the related concept of social concertation became the inspiration for an extensive literature on the role of collective bargaining in market economies. Some of this literature seemed to show that centralized bargaining among organized social actors (employers' associations and labor unions) and governments could mitigate economic tradeoffs by allowing these actors to coordinat…
Monetary Union and Wage Bargaining Institutions in the EU: Extrapolating from Some Member State Experiences
This article considers the question of how monetary union in the EU is likely to impact the preferences of governments, employers, and unions regarding the organization of wage bargaining. European Monetary Union involves a decentralization of wage bargaining (centered at the national level) in relation to monetary policy (centralized at the European level). Drawing on recent literature and on the experience of two member states (Italy and Spain)…
From Labor to Finance: Understanding the Failure of Socialist Economic Policies in Spain
This article seeks to explain the Spanish Socialist Party's (PSOE's) failure to reverse Spain's dismal employment record during the course of its long government tenure from 1982 until 1996. Most efforts to explain Spain's position at the extreme of the unemployment spectrum in Europe follow the prevalent tendency in the comparative political economy literature by giving causal primacy to labor market institutions. This article challenges this la…
Systemic Explanations, Divergent Outcomes: The Politics of FinancialLiberalization in France and Spain
This article challenges the adequacy of prevalent market-driven models of regulatory change, and more specifically, the stipulation that international market integration will lead governments undertaking financial liberalization in formerly interventionist states to carry out adequate market reforms. It does so through an analysis of financial regulation in two European countries: France and Spain. The article offers an integrated historical pers…
Finance and the macroeconomy: The politics of regulatory reform in Europe
This article analyses major changes in the regulation of the financial sector across Europe over the last three decades. The authors explain the timing of major regulatory variation in regulatory outcomes across five countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) in terms of political calculations on the part of elected élites that involve the relationship of financial regulation to other policy areas (including monetary policy and pension…
Competitiveness Revisited: Labour Costs, Financial Flows and the Case of Italy
Explanations of Italy's and Germany's position within the Eurozone commonly focus on trade 'competitiveness,' a concept measured in terms of unit labour costs. This trade-centric view offers a poor explanation for the evolution of the two countries external debt levels following the adoption of the Euro. It also fails to explain the external financial fragility that Italy has repeatedly experienced in the period since 2010. Both outcomes are bett…
Banking on Privilege: The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform
Systemic Explanations, Divergent Outcomes: The Politics of FinancialLiberalization in France and Spain
This article challenges the adequacy of prevalent market-driven models of regulatory change, and more specifically, the stipulation that international market integration will lead governments undertaking financial liberalization in formerly interventionist states to carry out adequate market reforms. It does so through an analysis of financial regulation in two European countries: France and Spain. The article offers an integrated historical pers…
From Labor to Finance: Understanding the Failure of Socialist Economic Policies in Spain
This article seeks to explain the Spanish Socialist Party's (PSOE's) failure to reverse Spain's dismal employment record during the course of its long government tenure from 1982 until 1996. Most efforts to explain Spain's position at the extreme of the unemployment spectrum in Europe follow the prevalent tendency in the comparative political economy literature by giving causal primacy to labor market institutions. This article challenges this la…
From Decentralization to Reorganization: Explaining the Return to National Bargaining in Italy and Spain
In the 1980s the concept of social, democratic, or neo corporatism and the related concept of social concertation became the inspiration for an extensive literature on the role of collective bargaining in market economies. Some of this literature seemed to show that centralized bargaining among organized social actors (employers' associations and labor unions) and governments could mitigate economic tradeoffs by allowing these actors to coordinat…
Monetary Union and Wage Bargaining Institutions in the EU: Extrapolating from Some Member State Experiences
This article considers the question of how monetary union in the EU is likely to impact the preferences of governments, employers, and unions regarding the organization of wage bargaining. European Monetary Union involves a decentralization of wage bargaining (centered at the national level) in relation to monetary policy (centralized at the European level). Drawing on recent literature and on the experience of two member states (Italy and Spain)…
Constraint or motor? Monetary integration and the construction of a social model in Spain
Spain's inclusion in 1999 among the first wave of countries participating in the eurozone defied the predictions of many observers who just a few years earlier would have deemed such an outcome improbable. A late entrant into the European Community (EC), the country had been plagued by higher than average inflation and by levels of unemployment that well exceeded those of the rest of the European Union (EU). Its system of labor market regulation,…
Finance and the macroeconomy: The politics of regulatory reform in Europe
This article analyses major changes in the regulation of the financial sector across Europe over the last three decades. The authors explain the timing of major regulatory variation in regulatory outcomes across five countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) in terms of political calculations on the part of elected élites that involve the relationship of financial regulation to other policy areas (including monetary policy and pension…
Immigration Policy
Competitiveness Revisited: Labour Costs, Financial Flows and the Case of Italy
Explanations of Italy's and Germany's position within the Eurozone commonly focus on trade 'competitiveness,' a concept measured in terms of unit labour costs. This trade-centric view offers a poor explanation for the evolution of the two countries external debt levels following the adoption of the Euro. It also fails to explain the external financial fragility that Italy has repeatedly experienced in the period since 2010. Both outcomes are bett…
The Pandemic and the Long Shadow of Austerity in Southern Europe
Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal have suffered some of Europe’s worst health outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic. The same countries also bore the brunt of the European sovereign debt crisis a decade earlier, when they were forced to undertake severe budget austerity measures in return for financial support from European institutions. Austerity left their economies and health care systems weakened when the pandemic arrived. Yet they were able to …
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (3 works)