Portugal Since The 2008 Economic Crisis

Download or read book The European Debt Crisis written by João Moreira Rato and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Portugal’s response to the 2008 economic crisis and how the country regained the trust of the global capital markets through investor support. The experiences and successes of Portugal are compared with the other Eurozone countries, in particular Greece which had to negotiate a series of assistance programs, to highlight the strategies which helped lessen the impact of the debt crisis. This book aims to provide insight into the global investor ecosystem and to how financial globalization works in practice, illustrating how the multinational investor universe, the financial media, rating agencies, and how investment banks interact. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in financial markets and political economy, and also financial market practicioners and policy makers.