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the same time, private debt levels, particularly those of financial institutions and households, are in uncharted …, restructuring of public and private debts. A more subtle form of debt restructuring in the guise of "financial repression" (which … had its heyday during the tightly regulated Bretton Woods system) also importantly facilitated sharper and more rapid debt …
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The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
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central government debt increases, on average, by about 86 percent. Thus the fiscal burden of banking crisis extends far …
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symptoms, and common features (such as misguided financial regulation or inadequate supervision) which serve as amplifiers of …
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toolkit of emerging markets, including debt restructurings and conversions, higher inflation, capital controls and other forms … economies, where debt restructuring or conversions, financial repression, and a tolerance for higher inflation, or a combination … current phase of the official policy approach is predicated on the assumption that debt sustainability can be achieved through …
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In the real world of less than perfect markets, balancing the benefits and costs of financial liberalization is usually impossible ex ante. Having been slow to liberalize, postwar Europe offers a possible testing ground. Looking at the experience in Belgium, France and Italy, a number of...
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this saving into domestic capital formation is inefficient. Since the middle of the 1990s, India's public debt has risen … this debt is, however, significantly different from that in 1991: external public debt is modest and international gold and … foreign exchange reserves stand at historically high levels. The domestic debt is rupee-denominated. For all these reasons …
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Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics - the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio - appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom and...
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-rate differentials, inflation, equity indices, and different volatilities. One exception is that removing controls on capital outflows …
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We use changes in Brazil’s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and externalities from capital controls on investor portfolios. The analysis is structured based on information from investor interviews. We find that an increase in Brazil’s tax on...
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