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world with liquidity crises and strategic default, we model a contracting game between international lenders and a country … reserves if the probability of liquidity shocks is high enough; however the cost of debt increases in reserves when the lenders … anticipate that the country has an incentive to default after a liquidity shock. Indeed, in the event of such a shock, we show …
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credit markets, liquidity demands rise in a country's domestic banking sector, which raise the probability of bank runs and …
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against liquidity shocks, which temporarily shut out the economy of short-term credit markets. Due to the presence of a …
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. To account for this empirical fact, we model the optimal portfolio choice of a country that is subject to liquidity and … international lenders. Although raising debt increases the sovereign exposure to liquidity and productivity crises, the simultaneous …
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Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does...
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The 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda recognized the need for policies aimed at maintaining longterm debt sustainability. This paper describes a set of commonly used definitions of debt sustainability and shows that none of them focuses on long-term debt sustainability. It then discusses concept...
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While there is still much disagreement on the causes underlying recent emerging markets' crises, one factor that most observers have agreed upon is that contracting "dollar" (foreign currency) denominated external debt - as opposed to domestic currency debt - created balance sheet mismatches...
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I identify new patterns in countries' economic performance over the 2007-2014 period based on proximity through distance, trade, and finance to the US subprime mortgage and Eurozone debt crisis areas. To understand the causes of the cross-country variation, I develop an open economy model with...
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We analyse the international transmission of interest rates by focusing on the role of the accumulation of international reserves and on the financing of sovereign debt. An increase in foreign exchange reserves is expected to moderate the influence of U.S. interest rates. However, a high level...
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dataset on economic crises after the Second World War. Results show that, in terms of the real economy, developing countries …
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