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Sovereign ratings are gaining importance as more governments with greater default risk borrow in international bond markets. But while the ratings have proved useful to governments seeking market access, the difficulty of assessing sovereign risk has led to agency disagreements and public...
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The paper examines the evolution of U.S. external balances since 1980 and considers various explanations for the … persistence of external deficits in the late 1980s and the 1990s. It also offers a general assessment of the medium-term prospects … for U.S. current account deficits. The review of evidence indicates that the huge increase in U.S. external deficits over …
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This paper investigates the consequences of debt stabilization for inflation targeting. If the monetary authority perfectly stabilizes inflation while the fiscal authority holds constant the real value of debt at maturity, the equilibrium dynamics might be indeterminate. However, determinacy can...
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This paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors want to deter default by debtors, or because trade finance dries up after default. To estimate the...
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