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This paper provides an empirical evaluation of the Flexible Credit Line (FCL), the IMF's prime precautionary lending …
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The level, tenor and instability of capital flows from global financial markets towards developing countries are a major source of concern for macroeconomic managers, while their causes remain largely unexplained by economic theory. Country ‘fundamentals’ (such as economic growth, monetary...
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This paper considers policies of the industrialized countries, as they pertain to crises in emerging markets. These fall into three areas: (1) their own macroeconomic policies, which determine the global financial environment; (2) their role in responding to crises when they occur, particularly...
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apply fiscal austerity measures to reduce public debt, regaining credibility and by this creating new fiscal options for …
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worse debt dynamics and more limited access to dollar liquidity. Asia, instead, seems to have developed a much more …
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Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given …. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels …. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means …
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We examine the short- and long-run effects of financial liberalization on capital markets. To do so, we construct a new comprehensive chronology of financial liberalization in 28 mature and emerging market economies since 1973. We also construct an algorithm to identify booms and busts in stock...
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apply fiscal austerity measures to reduce public debt, regaining credibility and by this creating new fiscal options for …
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challenged with worse debt dynamics and more limited access to dollar liquidity. Asia, instead, seems to have developed a much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490544
apply fiscal austerity measures to reduce public debt, regaining credibility and by this creating new fiscal options for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148843