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Sovereign debt crises involve debt restructurings characterized by a mix of face value haircuts and maturity extensions. The prevalence of maturity extensions has been hard to reconcile with economic theory.
Maximiliano A. Dvorkin +3 more
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Regime-Dependent Sovereign Risk Pricing During the Euro Crisis
Previous work has documented a greater sensitivity of long-term government bond yields to fundamentals in Euro area stress countries during the euro crisis, but we know little about the driver(s) of regimeswitches.
Anne-Laure Delatte +2 more
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Rethinking the Effects of Financial Globalization
During the past three decades, many countries have lifted restrictions on cross-border financial transactions. We present a simple model that can account for the observed effects of financial globalization.
F. Broner, Jaume Ventura
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International Reserves and Rollover Risk
We study the optimal accumulation of international reserves in a quantitative model of sovereign default with long-term debt and a risk-free asset. Keeping higher levels of reserves provides a hedge against rollover risk, but this is costly because using
Javier Bianchi +2 more
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Self-Fulfilling Debt Dilution: Maturity and Multiplicity in Debt Models
We establish that creditor beliefs regarding future borrowing can be self-fulfilling, leading to multiple equilibria with markedly different debt accumulation patterns.
Mark Aguiar, M. Amador
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Political Economy of the Greek Crisis
The Greek turmoil commenced as a balance of payments, or “sudden stop,” crisis induced by large current account and primary government deficits. It became an economic and social disturbance of historic proportions.
C. Lapavitsas
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Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms
We construct a dynamic theory of sovereign debt and structural reforms with limited enforcement and moral hazard. A sovereign country in recession wishes to smooth consumption. It can also undertake costly reforms to speed up recovery.
Andreas Müller +2 more
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Quantitative Easing, Collateral Constraints, and Financial Spillovers
The steady application of quantitative easing (QE ) has been followed by big and nonmonotonic effects on international asset prices and capital flows. We rationalize these observations in a model in which a central bank buys domestic assets that serve as
J. Geanakoplos, Haobin Wang
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Financial Openness and Growth: Short-Run Gain, Long-Run Pain?
No empirical evidence has yet emerged for the existence of a robust positive relationship between financial openness and economic growth. This paper argues that a key reason for the elusive evidence is the presence of a time-varying relationship between ...
M. Bussière, Marcel Fratzscher
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Is Inflation Default? The Role of Information in Debt Crises
We study the information sensitivity of government debt denominated in domestic versus foreign currency: the former is subject to inflation risk and the latter to default.
C. Galli, M. Bassetto
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