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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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Unlike the crisis years of 2007-2009 (when the insolvency of large banks was a major problem), the current round of the global financial crisis has fiscal origins. Almost all developed countries suffer from an excessive public debt burden that has been built up over the last two decades or more....
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This paper analyzes different government debt relief programs in the European Monetary Union. I build a model and study different options ranging from debt relief to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The analysis reveals the following: First, patient countries repay debt, while impatient...
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Unlike the crisis years of 2007-2009 (when the insolvency of large banks was a major problem), the current round of the global financial crisis has fiscal origins. Almost all developed countries suffer from an excessive public debt burden that has been built up over the last two decades or more....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102556
Romania, the study focuses on examining the 1980s foreign debt crisis context, its determinants and consequences, the impact … entered default or restructuring on the sovereign debt. In the case of Romania, the impact of the foreign debt crisis … outstanding loans contracted from international commercial banks, to which Romania was highly indebted. The decision of simple …
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Using novel data on individual euro area banks' balance sheets this paper shows that exposure to stressed European sovereigns manifested in a liquidity shock to their international funding through two channels: (i) a contraction in cross-border funding, and (ii) a contraction in US wholesale...
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In India, traditionally, a large component of government's debt was incurred at low rates of interest. High debt countries may face the risk of crisis of self-fulfilling debt. Throughout the world, debt management is distinct from monetary management. The establishment of Debt Management Office...
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During the sovereign debt crisis investors rebalanced out of stressed and into non-stressed euro area countries, thereby contributing to the tensions in euro area financial markets. This paper examines the geographical pattern of this great rebalancing. Specifically, we test whether euro area...
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​We study the effects of the ECB monetary policy and the European crisis resolution policies on the 10 year sovereign bond yields of seven European countries. We find that some of the decisions have had significant impact on sovereign bond yields and have succeeded in reducing stress in the...
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back. This chapter considers the implications of this insight using case studies from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The … connection is not unique to Europe, although it does not always result in feedback effects, or the 'doom loop' that has made …
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