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Contagion in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Glover, Brent - 2014
among thirteen European sovereigns from 2005 to 2011. Simulations from the estimated model show that a sovereign default …
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Credit Ratings and the Pricing of Sovereign Debt during the Euro Crisis
Aizenman, Joshua - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of credit rating changes on the sovereign spreads in the European Union and … spreads shifted markedly between the pre-crisis and crisis periods. European countries had quite similar CDS responses to … now highly-sensitive GIIPS group and other European country groupings (EU and Euro Area excluding GIIPS, and the non …
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Sovereign Debt
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
We review the literature on sovereign debt. We organize our survey around three central questions: (1) Why do sovereign debtors ever repay their debts? (2) What burdens, in the form of distortions and inefficiencies, does sovereign debt impose? and (3) How might debt be restructured to reduce...
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External and Public Debt Crises
Arellano, Cristina - 2015
The recent debt crises in Europe and the U.S. states feature similar sharp increases in spreads on government debt but also show important differences. In Europe, the crisis occurred at high government indebtedness levels and had spillovers to the private sector. In the United States, state...
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A Surplus of Ambition : Can Europe Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2014
IMF forecasts and the EU's Fiscal Compact foresee Europe's heavily indebted countries running primary budget surpluses of as much as 5 percent of GDP for as long as 10 years in order to maintain debt sustainability and bring their debt/GDP ratios down to the Compact's 60 percent target. We show...
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Interest Rate Uncertainty and Sovereign Default Risk
Johri, Alok - 2020
International data suggests that fluctuations in the level and volatility of the world interest rate (as measured by the US treasury bill rate) are positively correlated with both the level and volatility of sovereign spreads in emerging economies. We incorporate an estimated time-varying...
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Reputation and Sovereign Default
Amador, Manuel - 2018
This paper presents a continuous-time model of sovereign debt. In it, a relatively impatient sovereign government's hidden type switches back and forth between a commitment type, which cannot default, and an optimizing type, which can default at any time, and assume outside lenders have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453038
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Natural Resources and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies : A Curse and a Blessing
Hamann, Franz; Mendez-Vizcaino, Juan Camilo; Mendoza, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Emerging economies that are large oil producers have sizable external debt, their country risk rises when oil prices fall, and several of them have defaulted at least once since 1979. Moreover, while oil and non-oil output reduce country risk on impact and in the long-run, oil reserves reduce it...
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Monetary Policy and Debt Fragility
Camous, Antoine - 2014
The valuation of government debt is subject to strategic uncertainty, stemming from investors' sentiments. Pessimistic lenders, fearing default, bid down the price of debt. This leaves a government with a higher debt burden, increasing the likelihood of default and thus confirming the pessimism...
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Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults
Arellano, Cristina - 2008
In this paper, we use data from developing countries to argue that sovereign defaults are often caused by fiscal pressures generated by large-scale domestic defaults. We argue that these systemic domestic defaults are caused by shocks best interpreted as being non-fundamental. We construct a...
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