After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...

After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling (most of) the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...

Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...

Depuis les années 2000, les déséquilibres financiers internationaux sont à nouveau au coeur des préoccupations. Face au déficit croissant de la balance courante américaine, le reste du monde accumule les excédents. Le paradoxe est évident : le pays le plus riche est celui qui vit le...

Ce chapitre vise à présenter l’initiative PPTE originale et renforcée (ainsi que les initiatives annexes qui se sont greffées dessus), de manière à analyser la manière dont les modalités retenues induisent aujourd’hui l’élaboration des programmes de réduction de la pauvreté et...

L’objectif de l’initiative de réduction de la dette des pays pauvres très endettés est de rendre soutenable la dette de ces pays. Or la plupart des analyses concordent pour affirmer que la dette des PPTE risque fort de demeurer insoutenable après la remise de dette – du moins si les...

This paper sets out an analytical framework for optimal asset allocation of sovereign wealth, based on the theory of contingent claims analysis applied to the sovereigns economic balance sheet. A country solves an asset-liability management problem involving its sources of income and its...

With population ageing, fiscal consolidation has become of paramount importance for euro area countries. Consolidation can be pursued in various ways, with different effects on potential growth, which itself will be dragged down by ageing. A dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping...