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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Other Authors: Schnabel, Isabel, Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/181
Online Access:Full text available on IMF