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Private placement debt issues are more effective than public bonds in resolving information asymmetries and controlling …
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Most studies of corporate investment assume perfect capital markets and ignore the influence of financing decisions on real investment. This paper explores whether capital market imperfections are helpful in explaining real corporate investment. I develop a variant of a q-theory model of...
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increases in home currency foreign bond issuance was larger in countries with stable inflation and lower government debt, and in … that countries with more stable inflation and lower government debt were more likely to benefit from the opportunity to …
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economic exchanges since they face the possibility that debt default might also spill over to hinder their non …
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have indeed defaulted during bad times (when output was relatively low), but they have also maintained debt service in the …
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Argentina’s default in 2002. In this paper we develop a quantitative model of debt and default in a small open economy. We use …
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This paper introduces a model of international lender of last resort (ILLR) activity under asymmetric information. The ILLR is unable to distinguish between runs due to debtor insolvency and those which are the result of pure sunspots. Nevertheless, the ILLR can elicit the underlying state of...
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This paper introduces a model of international lender of last resort (ILLR) activity under asymmetric information. The ILLR is unable to distinguish between runs due to debtor insolvency and those which are the result of pure sunspots. Nevertheless, the ILLR can elicit the underlying state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005721445
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given …. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels …. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means …
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This paper explores the relationship between inflation and the existence of a local, nominal, publicly-traded, long-maturity, domestic-currency bond market. Bond holders are exposed to capital losses through inflation and therefore represent a potential anti-inflationary force; we ask whether...
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