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Is it Too Late to Bail Out the Troubled Countries in the Eurozone?
Conesa, Juan Carlos - 2014
In January 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton organized a bailout for Mexico that imposed penalty interest rates and … Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund) organize similar bailouts for the troubled countries in the Eurozone? Our … analysis suggests that debt levels are so high that bailouts with penalty interest rates could induce the Eurozone governments …
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Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows : The Ecb's Rescue Facility
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2011
The European Monetary Union is stuck in a severe balance-of-payments imbalance of a nature similar to the one that destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits whose accumulated value, as measured by the Target...
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History Remembered : Optimal Sovereign Default on Domestic and External Debt
D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2018
. Calibrated to Eurozone data, the model is consistent with key long-run and debt-crisis statistics. Defaults are rare (1.2 percent …
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Quantitative Sovereign Default Models and the European Debt Crisis
Bocola, Luigi - 2018
A large literature has developed quantitative versions of the Eaton and Gersovitz (1981) model to analyze default episodes on external debt. In this paper, we study whether the same framework can be applied to the analysis of debt crises in which domestic public debt plays a prominent role. We...
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The sovereign-bank nexus in the euro area : financial & real channels
Bellia, Mario; Calès, Ludovic; Frattarolo, Lorenzo; … - 2019
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Monetary policy, bank bailouts and the sovereign-bank risk nexus in the Euro area
Fratzscher, Marcel; Rieth, Malte - 2015
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Kicking the Can Down the Road : Government Interventions in the European Banking Sector
Acharya, Viral V.; Borchert, Lea; Jager, Maximilian; … - 2022
We analyze the determinants and the long-run consequences of government interventions in the eurozone banking sector … an econometric approach that addresses the endogeneity associated with governmental bailout decisions in identifying …
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The Euro and the Geography of International Debt Flows
Hale, Galina - 2014
Greater financial integration between core and peripheral EMU members not only had an effect on both sets of countries but also spilled over beyond the euro area. Lower interest rates allowed peripheral countries to run bigger deficits, which inflated their economies by allowing credit booms....
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Our currency, your problem? : the global effects of the euro debt crisis
Stracca, Livio - In: European economic review : EER 74 (2015), pp. 1-13
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Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? We develop a model where myopic governments seek popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when debt is low because they would lose access to debt markets and be forced to reduce spending;...
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