Essays on Sovereign Debt Crises and Macroeconomic Volatility
| Author | : Filippo Brutti |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
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Essays on Sovereign Debt and Default
| Author | : Jarrod E. Hunt |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Economics |
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This dissertation is comprised of two essays focused on the central theme of sovereign default. In the first essay, I detail a method to improve forecasting models of sovereign default by evaluating the impact of a country's composition of debt. For my second essay, I assess the long-horizon impact of a sovereign default episode on a country's economic volatility. A country's external debt relative to gross domestic product is positively associated with the probability of being in default. Aggregate measures of external debt are commonly used for this type of risk analysis. However, based on the details of each loan, there are numerous subsets of external debt. Using a dataset of 32 developing countries from 1971-2010, I find that short-term debt, commercial bank loans, and concessional debt owed to other countries are the categories responsible for the positive relationship between the aggregate and the probability of being in default. In addition to isolating the categories driving the relationship between total external debt and sovereign default, I distinguish between the associated impact of each debt category on the probability of entering default and the probability of prolonging default. This is an important distinction as some subsets, such as bonds and multilateral concessional debt, are only related to the probability of entering default, while others, such as the use of IMF credit, are only significant when a country is already in default. Additionally, I find that short-term debt, commercial bank loans, and concessional bilateral debt positively affect both the probability of entering default as well as the probability of remaining in default. Focusing on the composition of external debt provides a more complete picture of the effect of debt on the probability of default, allowing for more precise forecasts of default probabilities. In my second chapter, I evaluate the impact of sovereign default on the volatility of gross domestic product, a relationship related to two strands of literature: one focused on the impact of sovereign default on output and another that evaluates the impact of economic volatility on growth in output. In addition to bridging the gap between the existing strands of literature, the dataset and techniques employed in this analysis offer advantages over those currently in use. First, the use of the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition addresses issues encountered by other, common trend-cycle decomposition methods. Second, this dataset, which spans 1870-2008, includes more sovereign default episodes per country, allowing for a richer region-specific evaluation. Using a dataset of 7 South American countries, I find that the volatility of output decreases following a sovereign default episode. Taking advantage of the considerable longitudinal dimension, I am also able to assess the impact of volatility on economic growth by looking at different sub-periods. I show evidence that from 1870-1959, economic volatility is positively related to growth while from 1960-2008, a commonly used time period in the literature, there is no effect. These findings suggest that volatility's influence on economic growth may change over time.
Predicting Sovereign Debt Crises
| Author | : Paolo Manasse |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2003-11-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1451875258 |
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We develop an early-warning model of sovereign debt crises. A country is defined to be in a debt crisis if it is classified as being in default by Standard & Poor's, or if it has access to nonconcessional IMF financing in excess of 100 percent of quota. By means of logit and binary recursive tree analysis, we identify macroeconomic variables reflecting solvency and liquidity factors that predict a debt-crisis episode one year in advance. The logit model predicts 74 percent of all crises entries while sending few false alarms, and the recursive tree 89 percent while sending more false alarms.
Essays on Macroeconomic and Sovereign Debt Crises
| Author | : Henry Mooney |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021 |
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Sovereign Debt Restructurings 1950-2010
| Author | : Mr.Udaibir S. Das |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2012-08-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1475505531 |
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This paper provides a comprehensive survey of pertinent issues on sovereign debt restructurings, based on a newly constructed database. This is the first complete dataset of sovereign restructuring cases, covering the six decades from 1950–2010; it includes 186 debt exchanges with foreign banks and bondholders, and 447 bilateral debt agreements with the Paris Club. We present new stylized facts on the outcome and process of debt restructurings, including on the size of haircuts, creditor participation, and legal aspects. In addition, the paper summarizes the relevant empirical literature, analyzes recent restructuring episodes, and discusses ongoing debates on crisis resolution mechanisms, credit default swaps, and the role of collective action clauses.
The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and Its Impacts on Financial Markets
| Author | : Go Tamakoshi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2015-02-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 131762968X |
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The global financial crisis saw many Eurozone countries bearing excessive public debt. This led the government bond yields of some peripheral countries to rise sharply, resulting in the outbreak of the European sovereign debt crisis. The debt crisis is characterized by its immediate spread from Greece, the country of origin, to its neighbouring countries and the connection between the Eurozone banking sector and the public sector debt. Addressing these interesting features, this book sheds light on the impacts of the crisis on various financial markets in Europe. This book is among the first to conduct a thorough empirical analysis of the European sovereign debt crisis. It analyses, using advanced econometric methodologies, why the crisis escalated so prominently, having significant impacts on a wide range of financial markets, and was not just limited to government bond markets. The book also allows one to understand the consequences and the overall impact of such a debt crisis, enabling investors and policymakers to formulate diversification strategies, and create suitable regulatory frameworks.
Essays on Sovereign Debt and the Macroeconomy
| Author | : Lorenzo Prosperi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
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In this thesis, we present three papers related to sovereign debt. In the first two chapters, we study the importance of political frictions in explaining the large levels of sovereign debt to GDP observed in the data. In the third chapter, we evaluate the effects of banking regulation on sovereign exposures on macroeconomic activity. In the first chapter, we explore the channel through which political frictions generates borrowing or saving incentives in a consumption model with full commitment to debt repayment. In particular, we argue that an important and not-yet analyzed determinant of the observed heterogeneity of government debt across countries is the interaction between political conflicts and transparency of institutions. When the incumbent has preferences over the distribution of resources across different groups, in a transparent economy political uncertainty leads to pre- cautionary savings. Nevertheless, assuming that in more non-transparent economies the probability of an incumbent to be re-elected is more strongly a function of current economic conditions, then political uncertainty leads to borrowing incentives. We structurally estimate the two frictions (political conflict and lack of transparency) by using their macroeconomic implications, and we compare the estimated frictions with their proxies in the data. In the second chapter, we show that the existence of borrowing incentive generated by political frictions can generate large levels of debt to GDP, also when the agent is allowed to default on his debt. In particular, we intro- duce political uncertainty in the standard default model of Arellano2008: the incumbent has an exogenous probability of not being reelected in the next period, but in the cases when she decides to default, there is a larger probability of losing power. The calibrated model matches business cycle moments and generates realistic levels of sovereign debt in Argentina. The estimated political cost of default from the model is shown as being consistent with the decline in confidence in the Argentinian government documented around its 2001 default event. Finally, in the third chapter, we argue that favorable risk weighting on sovereign exposures induced by Basel regulation influences at the margin the composition of assets in banks' balance sheets at the cost of penalizing lending activity. To quantify the effect of the distortion induced by this regulation, we build a standard RBC model calibrated to the Euro Area economy. Increasing risk weights on government bonds has positive long-run effects and stabilization properties with respect to the business cycle. In particular, this policy makes the steady state lending spread on firm loans decline, stimulating investment and output. Moreover, it stabilizes the lending spread leading to a lower volatility of investment and output.
Money, Crises, and Transition
| Author | : Guillermo A. Calvo |
| Publisher | : Mit Press |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
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The essays taken on the issues that have fascinated Calvo most as an academic, a senior advisor at the International Monetary Fund and as the chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank: monetary and exchange rate policy, financial crises, debt, taxation and reform, and transition and growth.
Essays on Sovereign Debt Crisis
| Author | : Michinao Okachi |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
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This thesis consists of three chapters that aim to develop economic models to explain sovereign debt crises. Chapter 2 provides the dynamic general equilibrium model of endogenous sovereign default, incorporating financial intermediaries. By a government's decision to default, government bonds become non-performing and financial intermediaries eliminate them from their net worth. While other literature on endogenous default models assumes that the default state is exogenously given, only depending on TFP or endowment, the model in Chapter 2 creates a mechanism by which the default state is contingent on the amount of debt outstanding in the non-default state. Through this feature, the model quantifies the financial amplification effect on the economy and shows the phenomenon of "Too-Big-to-Default". The model explains the important features of the Argentinean default in 2001, capturing the default frequency, the debt-to-GDP ratio and moments of main variables. Chapter 3 proposes a new sovereign debt crisis model which is applicable to an advanced country, assuming the government's incapability to serve its debts rather than willingness of repayment. The fiscal limit is defined as the sum of discounted future primary surplus under the tax rate to maximize tax revenue. When the debt outstanding exceeds the fiscal limit, the government falls into debt crisis. The economic contraction in the crisis results from the exogenous tax rate and decreased imported inputs. The model replicates the high debt-to-GDP ratio, which the endogenous model cannot assume, and captures movements of important variables of the Spanish debt crisis in around 2012. Chapter 4 introduce foreign bonds based on the model in Chapter 3, for the analysis of several countries such as Greece and Ireland in which a majority of bonds is held by foreign agents. In the model, the government issues bonds for foreign investors, and that leads the outflow of domestic output. Instead of government bonds, households adopt capital for their inter-temporal utility maximization. Also, the fiscal limit is drawn from the exogenous distribution. The simulation result for the Greek economy generally explains the contraction of its economy by the crisis in around 2012 although the effect of imported inputs is overestimated and that of domestic inputs is underestimated.
Studies in International Economics and Finance
| Author | : Naoyuki Yoshino |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 671 |
| Release | : 2022-03-30 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9811670625 |
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This festschrift volume presents discussions on contemporary issues in international economics and finance. It is aimed to serve as a reference material for researchers. There are two broad sections of the book -- International Macroeconomics and International Finance. The chapters in the International Macroeconomics section discuss critical topics like aggregate level macro model for India with a new Keynesian perspective, balance of payments, service sector exports, foreign exchange constraints for import demands, foreign direct investment and knowledge spill over, the relationship between forex rate fluctuation and investment, Institutional quality-trade openness-economic growth nexus, currency crises and debt-deficit relationship in the BRICS countries in the backdrop of COVID-19. Apart from these, various analytical issues related to macroeconomic policies are also covered in this section. The topics discussed includes the nature of forex market interventions, the issue of disinvestment and privatization, changing nature of fiscal policy, the inflation-growth nexus, macroeconomic simulation modelling, measuring core inflation, central bank credibility, monetary policy, inflation targeting, Infrastructure, trade, unemployment and inequality nexus. In the International Finance section, topics such as COVID-19 induced financial crisis, commodity futures volatility, stock market connectivity, volatility persistence, determinants of sovereign bond yields, FII and stock market volatility, cryptocurrency price formation, financialization of Indian commodity market, and a Keynesian view of the financial crisis are discussed. Overall, thirty two chapters in the volume discuss cutting edge research in the areas of the two sections. A tour de force... a lucid guide to some of the diverse and complex issues in International Macroeconomics and Finance. This collection of scholarly works is a fitting tribute to respected Prof. Bandi Kamaiah and his enviable academic contributions. - Prof. Y V Reddy, Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India This volume comprising thoughtful essays by our leading scholars on some of important policy issues that India is facing is indeed a rich tribute to Professor Bandi Kamaiah . This book will greatly benefit the academic community as well as our policy makers. - Prof. Vijay Kelkar, Chairman, 13th Finance Commission of India; Chairman, India Development Foundation, Mumbai, India Noted economists from India and abroad gather to apply the rigorous searchlight that Professor Bandi Kamaiah used so effectively in his career. Major current topics in macroeconomics and international finance are effectively explored in the volume. - Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India; and Member, Monetary Policy Committee of Reserve Bank of India This volume of 32 papers in macroeconomics, international economics, and international finance is intended as a tribute to the eminent econometrician , Prof B Kamaiah. Post-graduate students and researchers will find much valuable literature in the volume, which is a fitting tribute to Prof Kamaiah. The editors and authors deserve rich compliments. - Prof. K L Krishna, Former Director, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, India I am so happy to hear that Dr. Kamaiah's colleagues and ex-students are bringing out a special volume of articles in his honor. Nothing can be more appropriate. Dr. Kamaiah, being a man of tremendous publications, deserves this tribute. I wish all the luck and success to the new book. - Prof. Kishore Kulkarni, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA
