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Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2013

In contrast to earlier recessions, the monetary regimes of many small economies have not changed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. This is due in part to the fact that many small economies continue to use hard exchange rate fixes, a reasonably durable regime. However, most of the...

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A Distant Mirror of Debt, Default, and Relief

Reinhart, Carmen - 2014

We take a first pass at quantifying the magnitudes of debt relief achieved through default and restructuring in two distinct samples: 1979-2010, focusing on credit events in emerging markets, and 1920-1939, documenting the official debt hangover in advanced economies that was created by World...

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Capital Markets, COVID-19 and Policy Measures

ElFayoumi, Khalid; Hengge, Martina - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses triggered a historically large wave of capital reallocation between markets and asset classes. Using high-frequency country-level data, this paper examines if and how the number of COVID cases, the stringency of the lockdown, and the fiscal...

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Contagion of Fear : Is the Impact of COVID-19 on Sovereign Risk Really Indiscriminate?

Cevik, Serhan; Ozturkkal, Belma - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on the evolution of sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel of 77 advanced and developing countries. Using annual data over the 2004-2020 period, we find that infectious-disease outbreaks have no discernible effect on CDS...

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Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts : Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared with and Without Bailouts

Bordo, Michael D.; Schwartz, Anna J. - 2022

In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...

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Deadly Debt Crises : Covid-19 in Emerging Markets

Arellano, Cristina - 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic in emerging markets risks a combined health, economic, and debt crisis. We integrate a standard epidemiology model into a sovereign default model and study how default risk impacts the ability of these countries to respond to the epidemic. Lockdown policies are useful for...

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Domestic and Multilateral Effects of Capital Controls in Emerging Markets

Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - 2015

Using a novel, high frequency dataset on capital control actions in 16 emerging market economies (EMEs) from 2001 to 2012, we provide new insights into the domestic and multilateral effects of capital controls. Increases in capital account openness reduce monetary policy autonomy and increase...

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Global Financial Crisis, Financial Contagion, and Emerging Markets

Ozkan, F. Gulcin - 2013

The recent global financial crisis was the first in recent history that was triggered by problems in the financial system of the mature economies. Existing work on financial crisis in emerging market countries, however, almost exclusively focus on the role of financial frictions in the domestic...

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The Breakup of the Euro Area

Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These … scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various … unlikely, I argue here, that one or more members of the euro area will leave in the next ten years; total disintegration of the …

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The Costs of Macroprudential Policy

Richter, Björn - 2018

Central banks increasingly rely on macroprudential measures to manage the financial cycle. However, the effects of such policies on the core objectives of monetary policy to stabilise output and inflation are largely unknown. In this paper, we quantify the effects of changes in maximum...

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