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Persistent Gaps, Volatility Types, and Default Traps

Author/Editor: Ana Fostel, Sandeep Kapur, Luis Catão.

Release Date:June, 2007

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 more...



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Missing Link : Volatility and the Debt Intolerance Paradox

Author/Editor: Luis Catão, Sandeep Kapur.

Release Date:March, 2004

A striking feature of sovereign lending is that many countries with moderate debt-to-income ratios systematically face higher spreads and more stringent borrowing constraints than others with far more...



Price: $15.00