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The euro and the global crises: Finding the balance between short term stabilization and forward looking reforms

Aizenman, Joshua - 2012

This paper analyzes reforms and adjustments in the context of the Euro and the global financial crises. Taking the perspective of the evolutionary approach to institutions, the formation of a new currency area is not unidirectional. The process leading to the euro is an example of a common...

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Systemic crisis and growth revisited: Has the global financial crisis marked a new era?

Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2018

Occasional crises have been shown to be part of growth enhancing mechanism (see Rancière, Tornell and Westermann, 2008). In this paper, we document that neither the stereotypical case study of India vs. Thailand, nor the benchmark growth-regression in this earlier research support this result...

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Can this time be different? Policy options in times of rising debt

Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, Franziska; … - 2020

Episodes of debt accumulation have been a recurrent feature of the global economy over the past fifty years. Since 2010, emerging and developing economies have experienced another wave of historically large and rapid debt accumulation. Similar past debt buildups have often ended in widespread...

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Financialization in emerging Europe

Kazandziska, Milka - 2022

This paper contributes to the financialization literature exploring the dynamics of financialization in eight emerging European economies (EEEs) compared to the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our analysis encompasses the decade before and the years following the financial crisis in 2008, including the...

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International Debt Deleveraging

Fornaro, Luca - 2013

I provide a framework for understanding debt deleveraging in a group of _nancially integrated countries. During an episode of international deleveraging world consumption demand is depressed and the world interest rate is low, reecting a high propensity to save. If exchange rates are allowed to...

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Do surges in international capital flows influence the likelihood of banking crises? Cross-country evidence on capital flows bonanzas and bonanza-boom-bust cycles

Caballero, Julian - 2010

This paper asks if bonanzas (i.e. surges) in net capital flows are associated with a higher likelihood of banking crises and whether this association is necessarily through a lending boom mechanism. Using a new database covering over one hundred countries during 1973-2008, the paper shows that...

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What is the risk of European sovereign debt defaults? Fiscal space, CDS spreads and market pricing of ristk

Aizenman, Joshua; Hutchison, Michael; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2011

, focusing in particular on the five countries in the South-West Eurozone Periphery (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …. We find that Eurozone periphery default risk is priced much higher than the matched countries in 2010, even allowing for …

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Sovereign Risk and Bank Risk-Taking

Ari, Anil - 2015

In European countries recently hit by a sovereign debt crisis, the share of domestic sovereign debt held by the national banking system has sharply increased. This paper examines the banking equilibrium in a model with optimizing banks and depositors, deriving implications for economic...

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The Greek public debt problem

Nikiforos, Michalis; Papadimitriou, Dimitri B.; Zezza, … - 2016

structural imbalances of the eurozone is of vital importance. …

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On creditor seniority and sovereign bond prices in Europe

Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2012

The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We critically evaluate this hypothesis, by pointing towards an...

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