An Imperfect Financial Union With Heterogeneous Regions /

We analyze a union of financially-integrated yet politically-sovereign countries, where households in the Northern core of the union lend to those in the Southern periphery in a unified debt market subject to a borrowing constraint. This constraint generates sudden stops throughout the South, depres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balestrieri, Filippo
Other Authors: Basu, Suman
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/205
Online Access:Full text available on IMF