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A Model of Sovereign Debt in Democracies
Alichi, Ali - 2008
sovereign debt is to maintain access to international capital markets. However, in a democracy, one generation may choose …
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Euro Area Sovereign Risk During the Crisis
Zoli, Edda - 2009
While the use of public resources is critical to cushion the impact of the financial crisis on the euro-area economy, it is key that the entailed fiscal costs not be seen by markets as undermining fiscal sustainability. From this perspective, to what extent do movements in euro area sovereign...
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Government Debt Issuance in the Euro Area
Fund, International Monetary - 2011
This paper documents and analyzes crisis-related changes in government debt issuance practices in the 16 euro zone countries and Denmark. Using a newly constructed database on primary market debt issuance during 2007-09, we find evidence of a shift away from pre-crisis standards of best funding...
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The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts, and the Eurozone Crisis
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2023
Despite a formal 'no-bailout clause,' we estimate significant net present value transfers from the European Union to Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, ranging from roughly 0.5% (Ireland) to a whopping 43% (Greece) of 2010 output during the Eurozone crisis. We propose a model to...
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Debt Mutualization in the Euro Area: A Quantitative Exploration
Ando, Sakai - 2023
This paper explores the feasibility of an idea proposed first by the German Council of Economic Experts in 2011 and revisited by Italian and French authorities in 2021: the one-off mutualization of some European legacy debt through the creation of a European Debt Management Agency (EDMA). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059638
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Income and democracy : Lipset's law revisited
Fayad, Ghada; Bates, Robert H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2012
We revisit Lipset?s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …
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What Makes Growth Sustained?
Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008
We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...
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Geopolitics and International Trade: The Democracy Advantage
Cevik, Serhan - 2024
to the question by analyzing the joint impact of democracy and geopolitical distance between countries with an augmented … distance in determining bilateral trade flows and that democracy fosters international trade and moderates the potential … negative impact of geopolitics. While the impact of democracy and its interaction with geopolitical distance are significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058709
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Macroeconomic and welfare costs of U.S. fiscal imbalances
Gruss, Bertrand; Torres, José L. - 2012
In this paper we use a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to assess the macroeconomic and welfare consequences in the United States of alternative fiscal policies over the medium-term. We find that failing to address the fiscal imbalances associated with current federal fiscal...
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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