Debt in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) is at its highest level in half a century. In about nine out of 10 EMDEs, debt is higher now than it was in 2010 and, in half of the EMDEs, debt is more than 30 percentage points of gross domestic product higher. Historically, elevated...

Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie führen nach aktuellen Erwartungen zu der schwersten Rezession in der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte. Zur Bewältigung dieser Krise kommt der Wirtschaftspolitik die Aufgabe zu, positive wirtschaftliche Impulse zu setzen, ohne gleichzeitig die...

We use event study regressions to compare the impact of EU monetary versus fiscal policy announcements on government bond spreads of ten euro member countries. Our motivation is to evaluate which of the two players - the ECB or the EU fiscal level - has been more crucial for the stabilization of...

We estimate the effect of consolidation efforts on investors' perception of government's solvency. To this end, we analyze announcements by Dutch government officials between September 2008 and December 2014 and select those messages that contain relevant new information on the likelihood and...