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The Indian debt overhang issue is one of the major reasons that fresh investments are currently not being made in the scale required to promote higher growth and boost employment. Among banks the public sector banks (PSBs) are burdened with the bulk of net non-performing loans (NNPAs). These...
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of 2007-2008.Two borrowing countries share a bailout guarantee by an institution with limited lending capacity. Contagion … occurs as one country needing (or being perceived as close to needing) a bailout diminishes the prospects of another country … receiving a bailout as well.We investigate how the availability of bailouts affects the probability of a debt crisis and find …
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by the People’s Bank of China is increasingly used as a financial rescue mechanism, with more than USD 170 billion in … together, China’s overseas bailouts correspond to more than 20 percent of total IMF lending over the past decade and bailout …
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Since the onset of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, credit risk spreads in Europe have diverged. Despite this divergence, credit risk comoves strongly within certain country groups such as the eurozone periphery. We seek to answer what the determinants of the observed pattern of credit risk...
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This paper proposes a quantitative theory of the interaction between private and public debt in an open economy. Excessive private debt increases the frequency of financial crises. During such crises the government provides fiscal bailouts financed with risky public debt. This response may cause...
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borrowers misprice the option to default with a U-shaped negative pricing error. The myopia discount changes the optimal bailout … policy. Myopia gets punished when the distortions from default mispricing outweigh the future bailout costs, resulting in … procrastinated default and protracted crises. The model shows that (i) myopia is an important determinant for bailout policy, (ii …
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