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Sovereign debt crises are difficult to solve. This paper studies the "holdout problem", meaning the risk that creditors refuse to participate in a debt restructuring. We document a large variation in holdout rates, based on a comprehensive new dataset of 23 bond restructurings with external...
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This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out effects if the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic...
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For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset covering four decades, we find that creditor lawsuits have become an increasingly common feature of sovereign debt markets. The legal...
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alleviating banks’ funding conditions and strengthening risk-taking incentives. Liquidity provision to banks may perpetuate …
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Using microdata from a U.S. household survey, we document that immigrants who lived through a sovereign default episode are 7% less likely to hold debt relative to otherwise similar immigrants who reside in the same U.S. state and come from the same foreign country but who did not experience a...
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We analyse euro area investors' portfolio rebalancing during the ECB's Asset Purchase Pro- gramme at the security level. Based on net transactions of domestic and foreign securities, we observe euro area sectors' capital ows into individual securities, cleaned from valuation effects. Our...
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, assuming incomplete financial markets, we demonstrate that default is habit and shock driven as well as non-strategic and …
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including a global liquidity aggregate. The impulse responses obtained show that a positive shock to extra-euro area liquidity … money ("global liquidity") on the euro area. We estimate structural VAR models for the euro area and the global economy … temporary appreciation of the real effective exchange rate of the euro. Moreover, we find that innovations in global liquidity …
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"liquidity glutʺ may have been a more important driver of real and financial imbalances in the US and emerging Asia than a …
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