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Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have …
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example has been cruelly shaken by the EZ (Euro Zone) crisis, originating increasing doubts about the integration process. It … economic policy. Given the enormous private and public debt accumulated in periphery after the single currency inception, and … the crisis, instead of solve it. Such solutions are unlikely to reduce both sovereign and external debt ratios of …
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Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have …
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Considering the deep and long-lasting impact of severe recessions, such as the 2008-09 financial crisis, it is important that measures be taken to minimise the risk of such event. But in doing so the benefits need to be balanced against the potential costs in terms of lower average growth that...
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uncertainties stemming from soaring interest rates amid record highs in debt. On the other hand, the intensifying US-China rivalry …
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Foreign currency debt is widely believed to increase risks of financial crisis, especially after being implicated as a … cause of the East Asian crisis in the late 1990s. In this paper, we study the effects of foreign currency debt on currency … and debt crises and its indirect effects on short-term growth and long-run output effects in both 1880-1913 and 1973 …
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We present a new empirical decomposition of the effects of financial liberalization on economic growth and on the incidence of crises. Our empirical estimates show that the direct effect of financial liberalization on growth by far outweighs the indirect effect via a higher propensity to crisis....
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A large empirical literature finds that financial development is beneficial for economic growth, although some recent evidence suggests otherwise. We contribute to the finance–growth literature by examining the role of credit growth skewness and long-run growth. Earlier literature found that...
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In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
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model is motivated by several features of recent crises: credit risk in the form of foreign currency denominated debt …
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