The European Commission recently proposed a Roadmap for deepening EMU. Establishing a European Monetary Fund (EMF) and support mechanisms for structural reforms are reasonable suggestions. However, the integration of the EMF in the Union's framework must not endanger the conditionality...

In 1970 the external debt of Tanzania, a least developed country, was 16.8 per cent of GDP and 58.6 per cent of exports. The ratio of per capita debt to per capita income was 14.4 per cent. By 2001 the debt had reached just over 100 per cent of GDP and over 11 times the value of exports, with a...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of domestic and external debt on macroeconomic variables in Nigeria from 1981 to 2020. Annual secondary data on domestic and external debt, inflation, output, investment and consumption sourced from World Development Indicators (WDI, 2021),...

Vor allem in Südeuropa hat sich die Staatsverschuldung von den Vorgaben des europäischen Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakts weit entfernt, sodass die Tragfähigkeit der Staatsfinanzen mitunter angezweifelt wird. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die mögliche weitere Entwicklung der Staatsschuldenquoten...

Debt in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) is at its highest level in half a century. In about nine out of 10 EMDEs, debt is higher now than it was in 2010 and, in half of the EMDEs, debt is more than 30 percentage points of gross domestic product higher. Historically, elevated...

In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the weight assigned to the lenders' interest by the borrowing government at the time of...

Können die Staatsschulden Italiens, Spaniens und von Portugal auch dann noch als tragfähig erachtet werden, wenn das Zinsniveau wieder steigt und eine gemäßigte Rezession zu verkraften ist? Dieser Report kommt zu einem differenzierten Ergebnis für den Betrachtungszeitraum bis 2022, das von...

This paper investigates the major drivers of the public debt growth in 184 countries. The underlying cross-country survey is conducted on the basis of the improved compilation of datasets on the central government debt for 2013. The study finds that oil abundance, economic growth rate, the share...

In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the weight assigned to the lenders' interest by the borrowing government at the time of...

In this paper, the author considers sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the "good equilibrium" is the only stable equilibrium under some quite general assumptions,...