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Sovereign default risk and commitment for fiscal adjustment

Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo; Guimarães, Bernardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper studies fiscal policy in a model of sovereign debt and default. A time-inconsistency problem arises: since the price of past debt cannot be affected by current fiscal policy and governments cannot credibly commit to a certain path of tax rates, debtor countries choose suboptimally low...

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Conditionality and Ownership in IMF Lending: A Political Economy Approach

Drazen, Allan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The relation between IMF conditionality and country ownership of assistance programs is considered from a political …

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The Use of SDRs in the Financing of Official Safety-net Mechanisms

De Cecco, Marcello; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The question addressed in this paper is whether the IMF should be involved in Mexico-style crises and, if the answer is … positive, whether the existing IMF financing mechanisms are adequate – both in terms of the volume of funds that can be … countries, and the justification for IMF intervention lies in the ability of this institution, compared with international …

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The Bail-In Problem: Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Eichengreen, Barry; Ruehl, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper we analyse the recent efforts of the international financial institutions to limit the moral hazard created by their assistance to crisis countries. We question the wisdom of the case-by-case approach taken in Pakistan, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and...

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Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?

Eichengreen, Barry; Mody, Ashoka - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We examine the implications for borrowing costs of including collective-action clauses in loan contracts. For a sample of some 2,000 international bonds, we compare the spreads on bonds subject to UK governing law, which typically include collective-action clauses, with spreads on bonds subject...

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Which International Institutions Promote International Trade?

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

International Monetary Fund (IMF); and 3) the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). I use a standard … indicate that OECD membership (but neither GATT/WTO nor IMF membership) has had a consistently large positive effect on trade. …

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Dollarization, Bailouts and the Stability of the Banking System

Gale, Douglas M; Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

obtained are applied to assess the desirability of dollarization in a range of countries and the potential role of the IMF as …

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Convergence Clubs and Diverging Economies

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper focuses on the question of income convergence among countries. While the methodology used to determine convergence differs from the common cross-sectional approach, it corroborates Baumol's finding of a convergence club among the world's wealthiest countries. It also shows that there...

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Trade and Convergence Among Countries

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper examines the relationship between trade and income convergence by focusing on groups of countries comprising major trade partners. The majority of these groups exhibited significant convergence. Furthermore, a comparison of the trade-based groups with different, randomly selected,...

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Slowdowns and Meltdowns: Post-war Growth Evidence from 74 Countries

Ben-David, Dan; Papell, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Many countries, both industrialized and developing, appear to have experienced a slowdown in economic growth. We examine a large sample of countries and find that a majority exhibit a significant structural break in their post-war growth rates. In nearly all of these cases the break was followed...

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