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Motivated by the recent European debt crisis, this paper investigates the scope for a bailout guarantee in a sovereign … debt crisis. Defaults may arise from negative income shocks, government impatience or a "sunspot"-coordinated buyers strike …. We introduce a bailout agency, and characterize the minimal actuarially fair intervention that guarantees the no …
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This paper studies the role of IMF-supported programs in mitigating the likelihood of subsequent sovereign defaults in borrowing countries. Using a panel of 106 developing countries from 1970 to 2016 and an entropy balancing methodology, we find that IMF-supported programs significantly reduce...
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crisis erupted and pushed them into deep recessions, raising their deficits and debt levels. By 2010,they were facing severe … other countries in the Eurozone, and how they may be addressed by policies at the European level …
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We use a new, comprehensive data set on the sovereign debt investor base to document three novel empirical facts: (i) sovereign debt is repatriated - that is, shifted from external private to domestic investors - prior to sovereign defaults; (ii) not all crises are equal: evidence for...
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production using data from credit default swap spreads during the global financial crisis and the subsequent European debt crisis … nonfinancials dramatically increased relative to financials at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, reflecting the nonfinancial nature …
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This paper presents a novel approach to detail the propagation of shocks to public debt. The modeling technique involves a structural vector auto-regression (SVAR) estimator with an endogenous debt accumulation equation. It explores how the main drivers of sovereign debt dynamics - the primary...
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sovereign debt crisis of a systemic country, in which case private creditors' bail-ins entail international spillovers. Besides … important that IFIs operate under a predetermined crisis-resolution framework that ensures commitment …
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This paper surveys the literature on sovereign debt from the perspective of understanding how sovereign debt differs from privately issue debt, and why sovereign debt is deemed safe in some countries but risky in others. The answers relate to the unique power of the sovereign. One the one hand,...
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The paper contributes to the discussions on fiscal governance in Europe. It takes stock of recent reforms, identifies areas for further progress, and discusses a menu of policy options for the medium-term. The issues covered include: (i) the growing complexity of the European framework and ways...
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We estimate a panel VAR model that captures cross-country, dynamic interlinkages for 10 euro area countries using quarterly data for the period 1999-2016. Our analysis suggests that fiscal spillovers are significant and tend to be larger for countries with close trade and financial links as...
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