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The paper analyses the drivers of sovereign risk for 31 advanced and emerging economies during the European sovereign debt crisis. It shows that a deterioration in countries' fundamentals and fundamentals contagion – a sharp rise in the sensitivity of financial markets to fundamentals – are...
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This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out effects if the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic...
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This paper explains why domestic debt composition in emerging economies is risky. It carries out an analysis of the determinants of ‘domestic’ original sin, which refers to the inability of emerging economies to borrow domestically in local currency, at long maturities and fixed interest...
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dependence of emerging Asia on external demand. This paper analyses, using an update of the Asian International Input-Output (AIO … linkages. According to the results, we do not find evidence of the decoupling of emerging Asia from the rest of the world. On … indicates that emerging Asia's dependence on exports is only about one-third of its GDP, i.e. well below the 50% exposure …
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regions with widening imbalances, the United States and emerging Asia, using sign restrictions that are compatible with … imbalances in the US and emerging Asia than a quot;savings glutquot …
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Against the background of the rapid integration of emerging Asia into the global economy, this paper investigates the … role of domestic and external factors in driving individual emerging economies in Asia. We estimate VAR models for ten …
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is rather diverse especially as compared to the group of top performing emerging markets in Asia. Econometric analysis …
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This paper presents a set of probability density functions for Euribor outturns in three months' time, estimated from the prices of options on Euribor futures. It is the first official and freely available dataset to span the complete history of Euribor futures options, thus comprising over ten...
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The debate on the sustainability of public finances is closely related to the analysis of the financial and macroeconomic consequences of government debt accumulation. Focusing on the USA, Germany and Italy over the 1983-2003 period, the central issue addressed in this paper is how the...
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This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries over a period of about 40 years starting in 1970. It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point—beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a...
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