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analysis is on three related hypotheses tested with both "world" aggregate levels and on an individual country basis. First …
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We analyze the sovereign bond issuance data of eight major emerging markets (EMs) - Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Turkey from 1970 to 2018. Our analysis suggests that (i) EM local currency bonds tend to be smaller in size, shorter in maturity, or lower in...
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In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...
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crises feature a feedback loop between bank guarantees and bank holdings of local sovereign debt thereby linking financial to …
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Two general approaches have been offered for dealing with the developing country debt crisis: continued reliance on case-by-case negotiation, versus global plans for fundamentally restructuring the terms of international lending and repayment. Both approaches have precedents in earlier...
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cycles, banking and sovereign debt crises, hyperinflation, and, for the post World War II period, the reliance on IMF …
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We present a simple model of sovereign debt crises in which a country chooses its optimal mix of short and long-term bonds subject to standard contracting frictions: the country cannot commit to repay its debts nor to a specific path of future debt issues, and contracts cannot be made state...
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Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression …, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …
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. This model generates dynamic relationships between foreign capital inflows, domestic investment and domestic bank debt in … accumulation of bank debt and increasing concentration of domestic lending and investment to the anticipation of contingent … domestic bank intermediation of foreign capital inflows under exchange rate pegs …
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This paper studies debt fragility and the sharing of the resulting strategic uncertainty through ex post bailouts. Default arises in equilibrium because of both fundamental shocks and beliefs. The probability of default depends on borrowing rates and, in equilibrium, on the beliefs of lenders...
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