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Resolving Sovereign Debt Crises : The Role of Political Risk
Trebesch, Christoph - 2018
Sovereign defaults are bad news for investors and debtor countries, in particular if a default becomes messy and protracted. Why are some debt crises resolved quickly, in a matter of months, while others take many years to settle? This paper studies the duration of sovereign debt crises based on...
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Sovereign Defaults : The Price of Haircuts
Cruces, Juan J. - 2013
A main puzzle in the sovereign debt literature is that defaults have only minor effects on subsequent borrowing costs and access to credit. This paper comes to a different conclusion. We construct the first complete database of investor losses ('haircuts') in all restructurings with foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092297
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ECB Interventions in Distressed Sovereign Debt Markets : The Case of Greek Bonds
Trebesch, Christoph - 2014
This paper analyses the determinants and effects of ECB interventions in times of severe distress. We focus on the Greek government bond market in mid-2010 and use a unique new dataset to show, for the first time, what type of bonds the ECB bought. We then explore the short-term effects of ECB...
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ECB Interventions in Distressed Sovereign Debt Markets : The Case of Greek Bonds
Trebesch, Christoph - 2018
We study central bank interventions in times of severe distress (mid-2010), using a unique bond-level dataset of ECB …, or corporate bonds. Hence, our findings attest to the power of central bank intervention in times of crisis, but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938010
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Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers : Evidence from the European Debt Crisis
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
This paper examines the spillover effects of sovereign rating news on European financial markets during the period 2007-2010. Our main finding is that sovereign rating downgrades have statistically and economically significant spillover effects both across countries and financial markets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127179
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The Greek Crisis : Causes and Consequences
Garcia Pascual, Antonio I. - 2011
Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster than GDP. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot close the solvency gap. A substantial reduction in the stock of debt is needed. Even post-debt restructuring, there is no guarantee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117780
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What Explains Sovereign Debt Litigation?
Schumacher, Julian - 2015
We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly increased over the past decades, but there is a large variation across crisis events. Why are some defaults followed by a “run to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023181
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Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union
Uhlig, Harald - 2013
This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076729
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The Sovereign Default Problem in the Eurozone : An Insurance-Based Approach
Arnold, Nadjeschda - 2015
This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that applying insurance theory is useful. We model risk neutral agents choosing portfolios of government bonds of n countries in a monetary union and other assets. We firstly analyse a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020584
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Sovereign Defaults in Court
Schumacher, Julian - 2018
For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset covering four decades, we find that creditor lawsuits have become an increasingly common feature of sovereign debt markets. The legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920182