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This paper sets the background for the Special Issue of the Journal of Empirical Finance on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. It identifies the channel through which risks in the financial industry leaked into the public sector. It discusses the role of the bank rescues in igniting the...
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I propose a dynamic general equilibrium model in which strategic interactions between banks and depositors may lead to endogenous bank fragility and slow recovery from crises. When banks' investment decisions are not contractible, depositors form expectations about bank risk-taking and demand a...
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How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing "lessons learned" in historical perspective. The crisis featured: (i) the return of debt problems to advanced economies; (ii) a bank-sovereign "doom-loop"...
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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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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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This paper studies the role of IMF-supported programs in mitigating the likelihood of subsequent sovereign defaults in borrowing countries. Using a panel of 106 developing countries from 1970 to 2016 and an entropy balancing methodology, we find that IMF-supported programs significantly reduce...
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