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Bailing Out the People? When Private Debt Becomes Public

Author/Editor: Samba Mbaye, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Kyungla Chae.

Release Date:June, 2018

This paper documents a form of private sector bailout that is much more common (and yet unnoticed) than the typical bank bailout. Building on the newly-created Global Debt Database, we show that more...



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Global Debt Database: Methodology and Sources

Author/Editor: Samba Mbaye, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Kyungla Chae.

Release Date:May, 2018

This paper describes the compilation of the Global Debt Database (GDD), a cutting-edge dataset covering private and public debt for virtually the entire world (190 countries) dating back to the more...



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Independent Fiscal Councils: Recent Trends and Performance

Author/Editor: Roel M W J Beetsma, Xavier Debrun, Xiangming Fang, Young Kim, Victor Duarte Lledo, Samba Mbaye, Xiaoxiao Zhang.

Release Date:March, 2018

Countries increasingly rely on independent fiscal councils to constrain policymakers’ discretion and curb the bias towards excessive deficits and pro-cyclical policies. Since fiscal councils more...



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