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This paper evaluates the challenges facing developing countries when there is uncertainty about the policy maker type. We consider a country characterized by volatile output, inelastic demand for fiscal outlays, high tax collection costs, and sovereign risk, where future output depends on the...
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. -- Credibility ; international reserves ; external debt …
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monetary policy credibility experience greater contractions during dollar appreciations …
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This paper evaluates the challenges facing developing countries when there is uncertainty about the policy maker type. We consider a country characterized by volatile output, inelastic demand for fiscal outlays, high tax collection costs, and sovereign risk, where future output depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213908
The recent collapse of the Argentine currency board raises new questions about the desirability of formal fixed exchange rate regimes in modern developing economies. This paper examines the impact of dollarized liabilities with potential default for a currency board with costly abandonment. We...
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Many studies show relationships between sovereign debt discounts and various structural, financial and other economic and qualitative phenomena. Although many of them explicitly mention the importance of the willingness to pay, they typically exclude it from the testing because the variable...
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resources internationally based, inter alia, on the perceived policy credibility of the national authorities and their policies …. The PTI shows that when a country has low credibility and is heavily indebted, investors hold its economy to a tighter … higher inflation, with limited or no impact on output. On the other hand, high credibility creates space for effective and …
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This study revisits and tests empirically the Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI), which analyzes how the effectiveness of macroeconomic policy in open and globally financially integrated economies is influenced by global investor decisions (Bossone, The portfolio theory of inflation and policy...
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policy credibility: when a country's credibility is low, they hold its economy to a tighter intertemporal budget constraint … credibility creates space for effective and noninflationary macro policies but, if such space is abused, credibility gets …
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We document that governments whose local currency debt provides them with greater hedging benefits actually borrow more in foreign currency. We introduce two features into a government's debt portfolio choice problem to explain this finding: risk-averse lenders and lack of monetary policy...
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