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This paper dwells on the Eurozone woes and addresses the origins of the transition from a fictitious boom to a painful bust by unravelling (i) the supply-side structural imbalances that formed the core-periphery economic divide, and (ii) the necessity of the periphery's sovereign debt to finance...
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There is an increasing need for a system of international lending of last resort (ILLR) to provide a safety net in the event of financial crises in vulnerable countries as financial globalization deepens and spreads. Multilateral progress to address liquidity and solvency crises has been patchy...
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We assess the quantitative relevance of expectations-driven sovereign debt crises, focusing on the Southern European … countries. We find that expectations-driven debt crises are quantitatively relevant but state dependent, as they only occur … during stagnations. Expectations are a major driver explaining default rates and credit spread differences between Spain and …
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The wave of sovereign defaults in the early 1980s and the string of debt crises in the decades that followed have fostered proposals involving policy interventions in sovereign debt restructurings. A key question about these proposals that has proved hard to handle is how they in influence the...
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the World Bank (WB). Finally, we find evidence of synchronization between MDBs and IMF during fiscal crises. …
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