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This paper describes the evolution of ideas to apply bankruptcy reorganization principles to sovereign debt crises. Our focus is on policy proposals between the late 1970s and Anne Krueger`s (2001) proposed Sovereign Debt-Restructuring Mechanism, with brief reference to the economics literature...
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The world has become more interconnected over the past few decades. Against this backdrop, economic and financial …
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The modernization of Italy's insolvency framework has been the subject of much interest in recent years, related not … least to its role in potentially facilitating an efficient allocation of resources. A unique feature of Italy's insolvency … folding the special regime into the general insolvency regime, possibly with provisions to allow for state intervention in …
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In this paper, we consider incidences of arrears to the IMF, focusing on protracted arrears cases and attempt to identify determinants of their occurrence. We use narrative and formal methods. In addition, we analyze determinants of the duration of arrears. We find that previous arrears,...
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the efficiency of insolvency and enforcement processes. Traditionally, these processes in Italy have taken very long … explores the recent insolvency and enforcement reforms and the remaining challenges. These reforms introduce important positive …
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Banks' living wills involve both recovery and resolution. Since it may not always be clear when recovery plans or actions should be triggered, there is a role for an objective metric to trigger recovery. We outline how such a metric could be constructed meeting criteria of (i) adequate loss...
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We re-assess the view that sovereigns with a history of default are charged only a small and/or short-lived premium on the interest rate warranted by observed fundamentals. Our reassessment uses a metric of such a “default premium” (DP) that is consistent with asymmetric information models...
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We study the relationship between default and the maturity structure of the debt portfolio of a Sovereign, under uncertainty. The Sovereign faces a trade-off between a future costly default and a high current fiscal effort. This results into a debt crisis in case a large initial issuance of long...
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We present an analysis of the sensitivity of household mortgage probabilities of default (PDs) and loss given default (LGDs) on unemployment rates, house price growth, interest rates, and other drivers. A structural micro-macro simulation model is used to that end. It is anchored in the balance...
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frameworks to flatten the insolvency curve, ensuring that adequate financing is available to support corporate restructuring, and …
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