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The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Martin, Philippe J.; … - 2022

Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, ranging from roughly 0.5% (Ireland) to 43% (Greece) of 2011 output during the … recent Eurozone crisis. We propose a model to analyze and understand bailouts in a monetary union, and the large observed … be optimal from the perspective of the creditor country, even ex-ante, if it increases the risk of immediate insolvency …

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Covid-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021

We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...

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Bank Sovereign Bond Holdings, Sovereign Shock Spillovers, and Moral Hazard During the European Crisis

Beltratti, Andrea - 2015

From 2010 to 2012, the relation between bank stock returns from European Union (EU) countries and the returns on sovereign CDS of peripheral (GIIPS) countries is negative. We use days with tail sovereign CDS returns of peripheral countries to identify the effects of shocks to the cost of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022926

Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults

Arellano, Cristina - 2010

In this paper, we use data from developing countries to argue that sovereign defaults are often caused by fiscal pressures generated by large-scale domestic defaults. We argue that these systemic domestic defaults are caused by shocks best interpreted as being non-fundamental. We construct a...

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Sovereign Debt

Eaton, Jonathan - 2010

We review the literature on sovereign debt. We organize our survey around three central questions: (1) Why do sovereign debtors ever repay their debts? (2) What burdens, in the form of distortions and inefficiencies, does sovereign debt impose? and (3) How might debt be restructured to reduce...

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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts

Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014

Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...

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Quantitative Sovereign Default Models and the European Debt Crisis

Bocola, Luigi - 2018

A large literature has developed quantitative versions of the Eaton and Gersovitz (1981) model to analyze default episodes on external debt. In this paper, we study whether the same framework can be applied to the analysis of debt crises in which domestic public debt plays a prominent role. We...

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Linkages Across Sovereign Debt Markets

Arellano, Cristina - 2013

We develop a multicountry model in which default in one country triggers default in other countries. Countries are linked to one another by borrowing from and renegotiating with common lenders with concave payoffs. A foreign default increases incentives to default at home because it makes new...

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A Surplus of Ambition : Can Europe Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2014

IMF forecasts and the EU's Fiscal Compact foresee Europe's heavily indebted countries running primary budget surpluses of as much as 5 percent of GDP for as long as 10 years in order to maintain debt sustainability and bring their debt/GDP ratios down to the Compact's 60 percent target. We show...

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Credit Ratings and the Pricing of Sovereign Debt During the Euro Crisis

Aizenman, Joshua - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of credit rating changes on the sovereign spreads in the European Union and investigates the macro and financial factors that account for the time varying effects of a given credit rating change. We find that changes of ratings are informative, economically...

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