This paper analyzes the causes of the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and examines the policy alternatives … confronting euro area governments. It suggests that pooling fiscal risks, creating an EU Treasury and issuing jointly-backed euro … advantages and disadvantages of euro bonds and concludes that issuing euro bonds can transform a market that is fragmented along …

This paper analyses the issue of the dynamics of the TARGET2 system balances during the sovereign debt crisis, when … working as lender of last resort for the euro area member States; indeed, only when the ECB took this responsibility by … launching the Outright Monetary Transactions clear signs of improvement were observed in the sovereign debt crisis. …

This paper analyses the issue of the dynamics of the TARGET2 system balances during the sovereign debt crisis, when … working as lender of last resort for the euro area member States; indeed, only when the ECB took this responsibility by … launching the Outright Monetary Transactions clear signs of improvement were observed in the sovereign debt crisis. …

economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital flows; the strong interaction between sovereign debt and domestic banking … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …

economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital flows; the strong interaction between sovereign debt and domestic banking … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …

Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given …. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels …. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means …

debt from its optimal path. The first perspective is based on a coherent theory of the equilibrium real exchange rate - the … foreign debt ratio - derived from stochastic optimal control - which shows why "divergences" lead to debt crises. The …