Sovereign Risk, Fiscal Policy, and Macroeconomic Stability /

This paper analyzes the impact of strained government finances on macroeconomic stability and the transmission of fiscal policy. Using a variant of the model by Curdia and Woodford (2009), we study a "sovereign risk channel" through which sovereign default risk raises funding costs in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuester, Keith
Other Authors: Corsetti, Giancarlo, Meier, Andre, Mueller, Gernot
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/033
Online Access:Full text available on IMF