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Dealing with Systemic Sovereign Debt Crises : Fiscal Consolidation, Bail-Ins or Official Transfers?
Sandri, Damiano - 2016
The paper presents a tractable model to understand how international financial institutions (IFIs) should deal with the sovereign debt crisis of a systemic country, in which case private creditors' bail-ins entail international spillovers. Besides lending to the country up to its borrowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002157
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When Do We Repair the Roof? Insights from Responses to Fiscal Crisis Early Warning Signals
Honda, Jiro - 2018
Should policymakers wait for fiscal crisis early warning signals before repairing the roof? We give an answer to this question by investigating the interlinkages between early warning signals for fiscal crisis, policy responses, and policy outcomes, using a broad panel of 119 countries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918563
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A Financial Conditions Index for Greece
Manning, Jonathan - 2015
We construct a Financial Conditions Index (FCI) for Greece as a surveillance tool to quantify the degree of the stress … (EA) as a whole and show that although the developments in the EA were qualitatively in line with those in Greece, they … were quantitatively much milder. Our results confirm that monetary transmission was less effective in Greece compared to …
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Transmission of Financial Stress in Europe : The Pivotal Role of Italy and Spain, But Not Greece
González-Hermosillo, Brenda - 2014
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The stability ofGermany is a close proxy for the resilience of the euro … to theirrelative importance in the region. Changes in Greece's sovereign CDS had no significant effect on Germany …
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Canada's Potential Growth : Another Victim of the Crisis
Estevão, Marcello M. - 2011
This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada's potential GDP growth. Using a simple accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labor services and total factor productivity, we find a sizeable drop in Canadian potential growth in...
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Great Recession and Fiscal Squeeze at U.S. Subnational Government Level
Jonas, Jiri - 2012
The paper discusses the fiscal impact of the Great Recession of 2007-08 on state and local governments in the United States. It documents the sharp decline in tax revenue and discusses how states responded to close the budget gaps in order to obey the balanced budget provisions. It highligts the...
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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - 2012
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
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Spring Forward or Fall Back? The Post-Crisis Recovery of Firms
Medina, Leandro - 2013
This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms in 48 developed and developing countries in 2010, identifying factors of resilience as well as vulnerability. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, the results show that...
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Fiscal Crises
Gerling, Kerstin - 2017
A key objective of fiscal policy is to maintain the sustainability of public finances and avoid crises. Remarkably, there is very limited analysis on fiscal crises. This paper presents a new database of fiscal crises covering different country groups, including low-income developing countries...
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Accounting for Macrofinancial Fluctuations and Turbulence
Vitek, Francis - 2018
This paper investigates the sources of macrofinancial fluctuations and turbulence within the framework of an approximate linear dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy, augmented with structural shocks exhibiting potentially asymmetric generalized autoregressive...
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