Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises : Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten /

Even after one of the most severe multi-year crises on record in the advanced economies, the received wisdom in policy circles clings to the notion that high-income countries are completely different from their emerging market counterparts. The current phase of the official policy approach is predic...

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Main Author: Reinhart, Carmen
Other Authors: Rogoff, Kenneth
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/266
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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