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This paper surveys the literature on sovereign debt from the perspective of understanding how sovereign debt differs from privately issue debt, and why sovereign debt is deemed safe in some countries but risky in others. The answers relate to the unique power of the sovereign. One the one hand,...
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characterizes the size and sign of its fiscal footprint, as well as the states of the world in which the temptation for fiscal goals …
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The sovereign's intention to issue inflation-linked bonds (ILB) is to save money. More than 15 years' experience with this financial instrument in the United States and in several other countries has led to the conclusion that these bonds are costly and basically characterized by low liquidity...
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The sovereign's intention to issue inflation-linked bonds (ILB) is to save money. More than 15 years' experience with this financial instrument in the United States and in several other countries has led to the conclusion that these bonds are costly and basically characterized by low liquidity...
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to this measure as financial volatility. First, I show that the idiosyncratic risk highlighted by models with a financial … model and structural vector autoregressions, I show that exogenous movements in financial volatility cause substantial and … evidence of a feedback effect between credit spreads and financial volatility …
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introduce high volatility into impulse-response functions of macroeconomic variables and thus make the effect of a given shock …
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This paper introduces changes in the level of ambiguity as a complementary source of time-varying risk aversion. We show in a consumption-based asset pricing model with simultaneously risky and ambiguous assets that a rise in the level of ambiguity raises investors' risk aversion. The effect is...
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