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The sovereign debt restructuring operation in Jamaica undertaken in early-2010 was a unique experiment that perhaps offered less by way of upside, if compared to the conventional sovereign debt exchanges, but provided credible assurances against further downfall and financial sector distress. A...
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recovery. Similarly, PDs derived from CDS data are risk-neutral and may need to be adjusted when extrapolating to real world …
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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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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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Greece’s investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world … suggest that Greece has been under-investing since the SDC, with private investment notably lagging behind. The estimated …
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We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...
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The Greek pension system has been costly, complex, and distortive, which has contributed to Greece’s fiscal problems …
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This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
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This paper investigates the impact of the new capital requirements introduced under the Basel III framework on bank lending rates and loan growth. Higher capital requirements, by raising banks' marginal cost of funding, lead to higher lending rates. The data presented in the paper suggest that...
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