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In an economy with financial imperfections, Ricardian equivalence holds when prices are flexible and the steady-state distribution of consumption is uniform, or labor is inelastic. With different steady-state consumption levels, Ricardian equivalence fails, but tax cuts, somewhat paradoxically,...
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one-period debt and can renege on its obligations by suffering a stochastic default cost. When faced with a credible … default threat, creditors can make a take-it-or-leave-it debt haircut offer to the sovereign. The risk of renegotiation is …
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Estimating the effect of trade on capital flows is difficult given the inherent identification problem. We use fluctuations in rainfall to capture the exogenous variation in trade between Germany, France, the U.K., and the Ottoman Empire during 1859-1913. The provisionistic policy of the Ottoman...
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assess and price the risk of default. In order to analyse default risk in the macroeconomy, a simple general equilibrium … model with banks and financial intermediation is constructed in which default-risk can be priced. It is shown how the credit … spread can be attributed largely to the risk of default and how excess loan creation may emerge due different attitudes to …
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default induced redistribution and costs due to income losses in the wake of a default. Their choice of short- versus long …-term debt affects default and rollover decisions by subsequent policy makers. The equilibrium maturity structure is shaped by … low, or a cross default more likely. These predictions are consistent with empirical evidence. …
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In this paper, we consider economies with (possibly endogenous) solvency constraints under uncertainty. Constrained inefficiency corresponds to a feasible redistribution yielding a welfare improvement beginning from every contingency reached by the economy. A sort of Cass Criterion (Cass (1972))...
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over the period 1982–1999. The recovery rates are measured using the prices of defaulted securities at the time of default … and at the time of emergence from default or from bankruptcy. In addition to seniority and security of the defaulted … securities, industry conditions at the time of default are found to be robust and important determinants of the recovery rates …
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report evidence of significant incremental information revelation in the credit default swap (CDS) market, consistent with …
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This paper analyses whether sovereign default episodes can be seen as contingencies of optimal international lending …
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This Paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be … associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors want to deter default by debtors, or because … trade finance dries up after default. To estimate the effect, I use an empirical gravity model of bilateral trade and a …
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