Showing 1 - 10 of 3,975
debt brake, which is sometimes interpreted as causality. At the same time Germany's economic performance is better than … analysis of the "structural" consolidation of public finances in Germany for the period from 1991 until 2017 showing that the … German debt brake is not the cause of the successful budget consolidation in Germany since 2010. The improvement of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859417
Spain´s sovereign crisis has many sides and causes. An unviable economic model and an insolvent financial sector generated a private sector crisis that rapidly spread to the Government´s balance sheet. The public sector itself had –and continues to have- its own serious dysfunctions. One of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076101
We study the role of sovereign debt for equity returns in the Covid-19 pandemic. Using individual stock-level data of more than 25,000 firms in more than 80 countries, we exploit variation in debt-to-GDP in narrowly defined industries and geographical regions. Following the outbreak of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837368
The financial crisis in Greece and other countries has resulted in an increasing concern over public debt and its viability throughout the world. The debt crisis in the Eurozone is still unfolding, as other European countries after Greece (such as Ireland) seek financial support from the rescue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103368
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392502
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715448
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480604
In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the weight assigned to the lenders' interest by the borrowing government at the time of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512528
In this paper, the author considers sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the "good equilibrium" is the only stable equilibrium under some quite general assumptions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349880
We compare the experience of Latin American external debt crises, in particular the one in the 80s, with the current European one. We do so with the aim of shedding some light on the needed adjustment mechanisms. We argue for the need of much larger debt relief in Europe. To address the moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402569