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The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts, and the Eurozone Crisis
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2023
Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, ranging from roughly 0.5% (Ireland) to a whopping 43% (Greece) of 2010 output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059348
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Dealing with Private Debt Distress in the Wake of the European Financial Crisis A Review of the Economics and Legal Toolbox
Liu, Yan; Rosenberg, Christoph B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The private non-financial sector in Europe is facing increased challenges in meeting its debt servicing obligation. In response, governments are revisiting legal tools and—in some cases—institutional arrangements to deal with over-indebtedness. For households, where the problem in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123879
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Transmission of Financial Stress in Europe: The Pivotal Role of Italy and Spain, but not Greece
González-Hermosillo, Brenda; Johnson, Christian A - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The stability of Germany is a close proxy for the resilience of the euro … during 2009–12 were due to idiosyncratic factors, market developments in Italy and Spain contributed significantly, likely …€™s sovereign CDS despite initial widespread concerns about such linkages. Spain and Italy show a notable co-dependence in …
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Crises, labor market policy, and unemployment
Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572447
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Foreign banks : trends, impact and financial stability
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424698
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Systemic banking crises database : an update
Laeven, Luc; Valencia, Fabian - 2012
We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e. fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt). We also update our dating of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618518
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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries
McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012
The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618525
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Monitoring systemic risk based on dynamic thresholds
Lund-Jensen, Kasper - 2012
Successful implementation of macroprudential policy is contingent on the ability to identify and estimate systemic risk in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and this conditional probability is modeled in a fixed effect...
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What determines government spending multipliers?
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J. - 2012
This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618568
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Building blocks for effective macroprudential policies in Latin America : institutional considerations
Jácome, Luis Ignacio; Nier, Erlend W.; Imam, Patrick - 2012
An increasing number of countries - including in Latin America - are reforming their financial stability frameworks in the aftermath of the financial crisis, in order to establish a stronger macroprudential policy function. This paper analyzes existing arrangements for financial stability in...
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