| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9178
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| DP9178 Optimal Sovereign Default |
| Klaus Adam
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| 发表日期 | 2012-10-14
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | When is it optimal for a government to default on its legal repayment obligations? We answer this question for a small open economy with domestic production risk in which the government optimally fi?nances itself by issuing non-contingent debt. We show that Ramsey optimal policies occasionally deviate from the legal repayment obligation and repay debt only partially, even if such deviations give rise to signi?cant ?default costs?. Optimal default improves the international diversi?cation of domestic output risk, increases the efficiency of domestic investment and - for a wide range of default costs - signi?cantly increase welfare relative to a situation where default is simply ruled out from Ramsey optimal plans. We show analytically that default is optimal following adverse shocks to domestic output, especially for very negative international wealth positions. A quantitative analysis reveals that for empirically plausible wealth levels, default is optimal only in response to disaster-like shocks to domestic output, and that default can be Ramsey optimal even if the net foreign asset position is positive. |
| 主题 | International Macroeconomics
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| 关键词 | Incomplete markets
Optimal default
Ramsey optimal fiscal policy
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9178
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538013
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Klaus Adam. DP9178 Optimal Sovereign Default. 2012.
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