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financial markets that culminated with the crisis that began in 2007. Nonetheless, the straightforward steps taken by …
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financial markets that culminated with the crisis that began in 2007. Nonetheless, the straightforward steps taken by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141203
The fall in the U.S. public debt/GDP ratio from 106% in 1946 to 23% in 1974 is often attributed to high rates of economic growth. This paper examines the roles of three other factors: primary budget surpluses, surprise inflation, and pegged interest rates before the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951....
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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 article presents a computer-assisted analysis of the first large-scale mass litigation of sovereign debt claims. Between 2002 and 2016, hundreds of lawsuits were filed against Argentina in the United States, virtually all in the Southern District of New York. Historically, litigation...
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crisis. Important differences are identified across the four states, reflecting differences in the policy choices of the …
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the...
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This study provides an empirical analysis of the impact of the Greek debt crisis on stock returns of U.S. commercial … banks. We find that good (bad) news events pertaining to the Greek debt crisis, identified by large changes in the Greek CDS … exposure was such that it did not result in any abnormal fluctuations in bank values at the height of the crisis. When we …
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the Euro Area, the continuous actions performed to contain the European debt crisis have repressed interest rates …
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