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What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …
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The Aftermath of Financial Crises
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2009
major post-World War II episodes. The main cause of debt explosions is usually not the widely cited costs of bailing out and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463993
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The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements : A Reinterpretation
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2002
We develop a novel system of re-classifying historical exchange rate regimes. One difference between our study and previous classification efforts is that we employ an extensive data base on market-determined parallel exchange rates. Our 'natural' classification algorithm leads to a stark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469751
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Fiscal Stimulus and Commercial Bank Lending Under COVID-19
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Spiegel, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the implications of extra-normal government spending under the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial bank lending growth between 2019Q4 and 2020Q4 in a large sample of over 3000 banks from 71 countries. We control for pre-pandemic structural factors, bank characteristics and government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172181
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The Social Costs of Sovereign Default
Farah-Yacoub, Juan P.; Luckner, Clemens von <Graf>; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt. We focus on the crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita. After methodological exclusions, the sample covers 221...
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Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality
Jiao, Yang - 2017
Quality of public institutions has been recognized as a crucial determinant of macroeconomic outcomes. We propose that a country's intrinsic level of openness (due to population size, geography, or exogenous trade opportunities) affects its incentives in investing in better institutions. We...
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When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?
Ju, Jiandong - 2008
Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...
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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?
Kim, Woochan - 2008
Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464925
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What Hurts Most? G-3 Exchange Rate or Interest Rate Volatility
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2001
With many emerging market currencies tied to the U.S. dollar either implicitly or explicitly, movements in the exchange values of the currencies of major countries have the potential to influence the competitive position of many developing countries. According to some analysts, establishing...
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