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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Autore principale: Fostel, Ana
Altri autori: Catao, Luis, Kapur, Sandeep
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/148
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF