''Mapping the model to the estimated transfers, we find that the main purpose of the outsized Greek bailout was to prevent an exit from the eurozone and possible contagion.''

This quote is from the paper "The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis", by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Martin, and Todd Messer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Finance Discussion Papers 1351, August 2022