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This paper studies the relationship between sovereign debt default and annual GDP growth taking into account the depth of a debt restructuring and distinguishing between private and official deals, as well as between debt flow and stock reduction. Analyzing 520 restructuring episodes, over the...
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In this paper we explore the factors that determine the level at which World Bank projects are implemented. In … dataset that provides information on more than 5800 World Bank projects for the period 1995-2014, and controlling for … probability that a World Bank project will be implemented locally by 3 percent …
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This paper studies the relationship between sovereign debt default and sovereign credit risk by taking into account the depth of a debt restructuring and by distinguishing between commercial and official debt. We take different proxies for credit risk measures, such as rating agencies and...
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In this paper we examine the link between sovereign defaults and credit risk, by taking into account the depth of a debt restructuring (haircut) and by distinguishing between commercial and official debt. The focus is on debt restructuring events, which take place at the end of a default, or...
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This paper evaluates the effects of IMF programs at the firm level, using a panel of about 130,000 firms, over the period 2003-2018. We consider the different dimensions of a Fund program, namely participation, loan size, and number and scope of conditions, and we look at their effects on growth...
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This paper studies the impact of debt default on economic growth taking into account the depth of a debt restructuring. More specifi cally, creditors losses (or haircuts) are used as proxies of the severity of the default episoded. Analyzing 89 defaults in 72 countries over the period 1979-2005,...
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We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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