Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation....

Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation....

Hans-Werner Sinn plädiert für eine Begrenzung der Notfallkredite, die die EZB Griechenland gewährt, und für die Einführung eine Kapitalverkehrskontrolle durch die griechische Regierung.

In this paper, we present data on trends over time in government debt financing in Japan since 2010 with emphasis on the importance of foreign holders and speculate about the determinants of those trends. We find that Japanese government securities were held primarily by domestic holders until...

The pressures on fiscal consolidation have mounted dramatically in the wake of the Greek and then the 'contagion' crisis which followed it (across the so-called 'weakest links' Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland). It led to the setting-up of the 750 billion euro stabilisation package widely seen as...

This article analyses the factors behind the fall in the net income deficit. The decline in the net income deficit is a function both of a significant slowing in the rate of growth of Australia’s net foreign liabilities and a reduction in the average yield on net foreign liabilities. As a...

The duration and volume of foreign indebting bear an important issue for every economy no matter how developed it is. Foreign indebting, which is applied when domestic savings can not meet the planned investments, causes different results based on the economic structures and the way that they...

The duration and volume of foreign indebting bear an important issue for every economy no matter how developed it is. Foreign indebting, which is applied when domestic savings can not meet the planned investments, causes different results based on the economic structures and the way that they...

The duration and volume of foreign indebting bear an important issue for every economy no matter how developed it is. Foreign indebting, which is applied when domestic savings can not meet the planned investments, causes different results based on the economic structures and the way that they...

Following the financial crisis effects, the issue of debt sustainability became of global importance, even for international security reasons. In the EU, despite post-crisis fiscal austerity measures aimed at rebalancing the public finances, the debt-to-GDP ratio continued to deteriorate. At...