Persistent Gaps, Volatility Types, and Default Traps /

We show that cross-country differences in the underlying volatility and persistence of macroeconomic shocks help explain two historical regularities in sovereign borrowing: the existence of "vicious" circles of borrowing-and-default ("default traps"), as well as the fact that rec...

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Autor principal: Fostel, Ana
Outros Autores: Catao, Luis, Kapur, Sandeep
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/148
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF