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Government debt as insurance against macroeconomic risk
Barbie, Martin; Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok - 2001
there an optimal maturity structure of public debt? Using a stochastic Diamond OLG model, we tackle these questions. We show … that there may be a welfareimproving role for a well-designed maturity structure of debt. …
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Households debt restructuring : the re-default effect of a debt suspension
Fraisse, Henri - 2017
When facing financial distress, French households can file a case to a "households' over-indebtedness commission" (HDC). The HDC can order an immediate repayment or grant a debt suspension. Exploiting the random assignment of bankruptcy filings to managers, we show that a debt suspension has a...
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A theory of social impact bonds
Tortorice, Daniel L.; Bloom, David E.; Kirby, Paige; … - 2020
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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Who chooses which private education? : theory and international evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755327
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Fiscal policy, sovereign default, and bailouts
Jüßen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2013
This paper examines fiscal policy without commitment and the effects of conditional bailout loans. The government relies on distortionary taxation and decides between full debt repayment and costly default. It tends to overborrow due to myopia, which induces default to be a relevant policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225902
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A Kaldor matching model of real wage declines
Sattinger, Michael - 2001
A model linking macroeconomic phenomena and income distribution in balanced growth equilibria is developed as a variant to the Kaldor model of factor shares. It departs from the original Kaldor model in assuming equal savings rates and production determined by a matching process between workers...
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Government deficit shocks and Okun's coefficient volatility : new insights on the austerity versus growth debate
Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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Credit constraints and productive entrepreneurship in Africa
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2011
that can be used as collateral. This paper presents a model where firm creation and growth hinge on matching potential … entrepreneurs with productive technologies, while firm growth depends on acquired capital. The shortage of collateral creates a ….g., the depth of credit information and the strength of legal rights pertaining to collateral and bankruptcy) would stimulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523518
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Debt portfolios
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2011
the U.S. We then establish the quantitative result that home equity does not serve as informal collateral for unsecured … and price of unsecured debt. -- household debt portfolios ; housing ; collateral ; bankruptcy ; commitment ; income risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244090
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Household debt and crises of confidence
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2015
a collateral constraint. Over a specific range of debt levels this liquidity feedback effect is strong enough to give …
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