Showing 1 - 10 of 318
In the analysis of public and external debt sustainability the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia is actively … using the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) framework. The aim of our analysis is to improve the analytical power of … determine public and external debt dynamics, within the IMF's standard debt sustainability framework. VAR estimation is used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785356
interest payments on debt are not to explode. … interest net of taxes that exceeds the real growth rate will not generate explosive interest flows, even when the government is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266538
low consumption and output, high interest rates, negative asset holdings, current account deficits, high inflation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321564
borrowing is positively and significantly related to capital flight, suggesting that to a large extent capital flight is debt … policy indicators, the interest rate differential, exchange rate appreciation, financial development, and indicators of the … political environment and governance. We discuss the implications of the results for debt relief and for policies aimed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010456979
The paper sheds light on the apparent success of dollarization in Ecuador. The experience of Argentina with convertibility is used to anchor the analysis. Two key factors are seen to play the most important role: first, the behavior of the real exchange rate and second, the source of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288102
The empirical literature points the financial intermediation, measured by the level of credits relative to GDP in the economy, as one of the factors which affects the current account dynamics in a given country. This paper tries to estimate and then quantify the possible impact that household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705283
creating and organizing markets. By contrast, this paper locates the origin of money in credit and debt relations, with the … chosen by the state, and is enforced through denominating tax liabilities in the state's own currency. What is the … public interest, without worrying about availability of finance." The alternative view of money leads to quite different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266447
This paper documents that cross-border investment income flows are important for explaining current account balances in major economies. Those investment incomes reflect returns on cross-border asset holdings and on balance often reach magnitudes around 5% of major economies' gross domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517459
government expenditures faces a fearful public that forms pessimistic expectations. We identify two forces that shape our results … motive for expectation management that aims towards the manipulation of equilibrium prices of government debt in a favorable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292256
We examine the impact of different degrees of fiscal feedback on debt in an economy with nominal rigidities where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292363