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This paper investigates the transmission of uncertainty about the state of government finances on economic activity. I first employ a data-rich approach to extract a novel proxy that captures uncertainty surrounding the public finances of the Spanish economy, to which I refer as sovereign...
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A traditional explanation for why sovereign governments repay debts is that they want to keep good reputations so they can easily borrow more. Bulow and Rogoff show that this argument is invalid under two conditions: (i) there is a single debt relationship, and (ii) regardless of their past...
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A traditional explanation for why sovereign governments repay debts is that they want to keep good reputations so they can easily borrow more. Bulow and Rogoff show that this argument is invalid under two conditions: (i) there is a single debt relationship, and (ii) regardless of their past...
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that, while the default premium does not contribute to carry trade strategies, the contribution of interest rate risk …, captured by the term premium, is large and increases with maturity. We introduce default risk in an otherwise standard affine …
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We analyze how concerns for model misspecification on the part of international lenders affect the desirability of issuing state-contingent debt instruments in a standard sovereign default model à la Eaton and Gersovitz (1981). We show that for the commonly used threshold state-contingent bond...
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://ssrn.com/abstract=2420000" Sovereign Risk: A World Without Risk-Free Assets? …This paper was presented at the panel session entitled “Risk managers on default probability for prime sovereigns …”, held during the seminar on sovereign risk hosted by the BIS in January 2013.Full publication: "http …
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default risk component and the residual risk premium for Eurobonds of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. We find that the risk … countries. The predominantly large, non-flat risk premium curve considerably modifies the yield spread term-structure which is … implied by expected default losses. The risk premium and also its share within the yield spread both however vary considerably …
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