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achieve its goals: to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to 120.5% in 2020 and to ensure the return of Greece to market financing by … restructuring process and (3) costs of restructuring; and applies them to the case of Greece. Based on this analysis, three policy … implications are formulated, with relevance to Greece and the wider eurozone. Firstly, the importance of increased policy effort by …
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foodstuffs (olive oil, ewe’s milk cheese) but at a lower price. On the other hand, for Spain and Portugal efforts to stimulate … wages only will not solve the euro crisis. Only in the case of Greece, Europe’s biggest 'problem child', would a general … wage cut lead to improved competitiveness – regardless of the pain such a reform would cause. This is because Greece …
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In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the weight assigned to the lenders' interest by the borrowing government at the time of...
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Based on a sample of 38 emerging countries, we find that inflation targeting (IT) adoption improves sovereign debt risk. However, we show that IT adoption effectiveness is sensitive to several structural characteristics, such as the phase of the business cycle, the fiscal stance, and the level...
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This Article examines the process by which overlapping interests between private bankers and government translates into influence and power mediated through the use of bank loans as instruments of foreign policy. The article suggests the market transactions often act as a matter of U.S....
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