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The internal cost of default, an important driver of sovereign debt repayment, increases with domestic portfolios' home bias. And so, when using capital controls or other instruments to steer these portfolios, a country faces a trade-off between commitment to repay and diversification. But why...
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This paper illustrates how a parsimonious macro-finance model can be exploited to investigate the frequency-domain properties of debt service implied by various financing srategies. This orginal approach is valuable to public debt managers seeking to assess the fiscal-hedging properties of the...
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This article addresses the existence of a wide range of estimated government spending multipliers in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the euro area. Our estimation results and counterfactual exercises provide evidence that omitting the interactions of key ingredients at the...
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reveal that the financial crisis of 2008 has dramatically increased the cost of market funding for both banks and non …-financial firms but had no effect on the credit spreads of financial firms. The 2008 financial crisis also led to a systematic … increased further as the European debt crisis has unfolded since 2010. Since that time, credit spreads for both non …
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Business surveys are an important element in the analysis of the short-term economic situation because of the timeliness and nature of the information they convey. Especially, surveys are often involved in econometric models in order to provide an early assessment of the current state of the...
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This paper examines the effects of introducing a non Walrasian labour market into the "New Neoclassical Synthesis'' framework. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is formulated, solved, and calibrated in order to evaluate its ability to replicate the main features of the Euro area...
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The 2007 sub-prime crisis in the United States, prolonged by a severe economic recession spread over many countries …
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Euro area countries as a whole have experienced a marked downward trend over the 1980s. Over this period, the unemployment rate has increased and economic activity has been sluggish. Changes in the implicit inflation target, viewed as low frequency movements of inflation, might possibly explain...
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magnitude in times of crisis and non-crisis in France. We find that these nonlinearities are both frequent (as they exist on all … show that if one considers the aggregate GDP, public expenditure has a stronger impact during crisis and the expenditure … taxes changes induce a (stimulus) effect in the investment rate only during non-crisis periods. A rise in subsidies has a …
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certain asset classes since the onset of the crisis, notably the sovereign bonds of stressed euro area countries. These … sovereign debt crisis. …
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