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Contagion in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Glover, Brent - 2014

We use a network model of credit risk to measure market expectations of the potential spillovers from a sovereign default. Specifically, we develop an empirical model, based on the recent theoretical literature on contagion in financial networks, and estimate it with data on sovereign credit...

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Tales from the Bretton Woods

Bordo, Michael D. - 2014

An analogy has been made between the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the recent Eurozone crisis. The build up of TARGET balances in the Eurosystem of Central Banks after 2007 with the GIPS (deficit countries having large liabilities) and Germany (a surplus country) with large...

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U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts : From Mexico to LTCM

Stulz, Rene M. - 2000

This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock … events in countries experiencing a crisis. The paper uses the impact of the LTCM crisis on bank stock prices to put the …

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Banks and Macroeconomics Disturbances under Predetermined Exchange Rates

Edwards, Sebastian - 1997

employment through fluctuations in bank credit. We also analyze the countercyclical use of reserve requirements. Econometric …

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Rise of Bank Competition : Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China

Gao, Haoyu - 2019

Using proprietary individual level loan data, this paper explores the economic consequences of the 2009 bank entry … corporate loans from entrant banks. Consequently, in deregulated cities, private firms with bank credit access increase asset … following deregulation. Deregulation also amplifies bank credit from productive private firms to inefficient SOEs due mainly to …

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Sovereign Debt

Eaton, Jonathan - 1995

We review the literature on sovereign debt. We organize our survey around three central questions: (1) Why do sovereign debtors ever repay their debts? (2) What burdens, in the form of distortions and inefficiencies, does sovereign debt impose? and (3) How might debt be restructured to reduce...

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Quantitative Sovereign Default Models and the European Debt Crisis

Bocola, Luigi - 2018

A large literature has developed quantitative versions of the Eaton and Gersovitz (1981) model to analyze default episodes on external debt. In this paper, we study whether the same framework can be applied to the analysis of debt crises in which domestic public debt plays a prominent role. We...

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Monetary Independence and Rollover Crises

Bianchi, Javier - 2018

This paper shows that the inability to use monetary policy for macroeconomic stabilization leaves a government more vulnerable to a rollover crisis. We study a sovereign default model with self-fulfilling rollover crises, foreign currency debt, and nominal rigidities. When the government lacks...

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The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

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 43% (Greece) of 2011 output during the recent Eurozone crisis. We propose a model to analyze...

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Sovereign Debt Standstills

Hatchondo, Juan C. - 2020

As a response to economic crises triggered by COVID-19, sovereign debt standstill proposals emphasize debt payment suspensions without haircuts on the face value of debt obligations. We quantify the effects of standstills using a standard default model. We find that a one-year standstill...

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