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benchmark model of sovereign default and direct creditor sanctions by Obstfeld and Rogoff (1996). In their model it is in the … enhances the credibility of the country's promise to repay and prevents default altogether. We incorporate two key features of … at all costs" may be very bad advice indeed. -- Sudden Stops ; National Institutions ; Debt Accumulation ; Default …
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Over recent years, several euro area countries have registered large and persistent net foreign liabilities. This paper examines the risks arising from these external stock imbalances, the prospects for their smooth unwinding and the menu of policy options. The paper demonstrates that external...
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Sovereign defaults are bad news for investors and debtor countries, in particular if a default becomes messy and … to exit a default quickly …
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In the 1970s, while a leftist military dictatorship ruled Peru, more than 22 million acres of cultivated or grazing farmland – one-third of Peru's total agricultural acreage, or seven-and-a-half times the land area of Connecticut – were expropriated from thousands of large owners as part of...
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and sovereign default. We analytically characterize debt-GDP thresholds that foster cooperation among rent seeking groups … and avoid default. Our analysis and application helps in understanding the politico-economic sustainability of sovereign …
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We analyze Sovereign Bond-Backed Securities, concentrating our attention on the return of the different tranches and on their risk. We show that as the correlation level among defaults increases, the yield rate of senior tranches increases while the yield rate of junior tranches decreases. A...
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literatures on the costs and causes of defaults. It describes the adverse impact of sovereign default risk on the issuing …
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We analyze the impact of monetary policy on bilateral cross-border bank flows using the BIS Locational Banking Statistics between 1995 and 2014. We find that monetary policy in the source countries is an important determinant of cross-border bank flows. In addition, we find evidence in favor of...
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the pricing of default risk. Inalienability implies that it is not as advantageous to expropriate FDI relative to other … of FDI translates into a lower default premium and lower sensitivity to changes in a country’s financing constraint. The …
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This paper studies the effect of implementing fiscal rules on sovereign default risk and on the probability of large …
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