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We analyse the poisonous interaction between bank rescues, financial fragility and sovereign debt discounts. In our … sovereign debt discount. We introduce long term government debt, which gives rise to the possibility of capital losses on bank … intermediaries causes bond prices to drop triggering capital losses at the bank under intervention. This mechanism shows the limits …
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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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This paper studies the impact of the state-dependent risk of a government default on the correlation of the scal balance and current account. We use a small open economy model where nonlinear risk premia arise endogenously when the government operates close to its scal limit, i.e. the maximum...
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obtained in the presence of a larger response by the central bank. The model also emphasizes the importance of financial …
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