Moral Hazard and International Crisis Lending : A Test /

We test for the existence of a moral hazard effect attributable to official crisis lending by analyzing the evolution of sovereign bond spreads in emerging markets before and after the Russian crisis. The nonbailout of Russia in August 1998 is interpreted as an event that decreased the perceived pro...

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Autore principale: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Altri autori: Schnabel, Isabel, Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/181
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF