New York TimesRoom for Debate
June 20, 2011
Introduction
Europe’s finance ministers on Monday said they would hold off in sending a new infusion of aid to Greece until July, demanding that the Greek government first agree to spending cuts and financial reforms.
Greece needs the money to stay solvent. The International Monetary Fund was asking the European Union to effectively keep the Greek government afloat if its financing plan fell short over the next year. A Greek default would be twice the size of the two largest defaults in history put together — Argentina and Russia.
What form should an I.M.F. intervention in Greece take, who stands to gain, and what lessons have been learned from Argentina and other national financial crises?
Debaters
Bailing Out Europe's Elite
Simon Johnson, economist, M.I.T.
Moral Hazard in Greece
Aristides Hatzis, University of Athens
Lessons From Argentina
Alan Cibils, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
Why the I.M.F. Isn't the Solution
Veronique de Rugy, George Mason University
The Advantage of a Clean Start
Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Avoiding the Default Trap
Daniel Gros, Center for European Policy Studies
Prevent Contagion
Edward Harrison, Credit Writedowns.com
Get It Over With
Dani Rodrik, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Exit the Euro Now
Desmond Lachman, American Enterprise Institute
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