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Conventional wisdom says that, in the absence of sufficient default penalties, sovereign risk constraints credit and lowers welfare. We show that this conventional wisdom rests on one implicit assumption: that assets cannot be retraded in secondary markets. Once this assumption is relaxed, there...
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There is a large and growing literature that studies the effects of weak enforcement institutions on economic performance. This literature has focused almost exclusively on primary markets, in which assets are issued and traded to improve the allocation of investment and consumption. The general...
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instruments which, if properly managed, perform better than either loans or grants taken in isolation. The core of the intuition …
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loans to Central Europe and reconstruction of the gold standard system was needed to initiate long-term capital flows. A …
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This paper uses a data-set including time series data on macroeconomic variables, loans, deposits and interest rates … studies while we uncover new facts on disaggregated loans and deposits. During the crisis the cyclical behavior of short term … interest rates, loans and deposits remain stable but we identify unusual dynamics of longer term loans, deposits and longer …
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This paper develops a model of equilibrium in the market for loans. It focuses on the effects on equilibrium of (i …
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moving beyond entrepreneurial credit and offering consumer loans. But many practitioners and policymakers are skeptical about … administrative data on loan repayment. We find that the marginal loans produced measurable benefits in the form of increased … employment, reduced hunger, and reduced poverty. The marginal loans also appear to have been profitable for the lender. The …
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