Toward a Lender of First Resort /

If interest rates (country spreads) rise, debt can rapidly be subject to a snowball effect, which becomes self-fulfilling with regard to the fundamentals themselves. This is a market imperfection, because we cannot be confident that the unaided market will choose the "good" over the "...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Daniel
Other Authors: Portes, Richard
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/066
Online Access:Full text available on IMF