The paper aims to present some risks and consequences of the indebtedness of an economy. The article is based on the results of a research project and it describes the negative effects of a high level of indebtedness of an economy, the elements that influence the risks of an economy's...

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...