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Debt restructuring and the rules of engineering Incentivves to avoid delayed default -------------------------------------------------...

As UN economist Ugo Panizza, one of the authors of the study, explains : “Our findings show that there can be “too much” finance. While...

Il nostro articolo " Too Much Finance? " e' uscito come IMF Working Paper ed e' stato notato in alcuni siti italiani: I...

Countries with high public debt tend to grow slowly – a correlation often used to justify austerity. This column presents new evidence chall...

Not really. This paper uses an instrumental variable approach to study whether public debt has a causal effect on economic growth in a s...

Krugman on our original sin paper http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/original-sin-and-the-euro-crisis/ ----------------------------...

I took this picture in a shopping mall in Wuhan (Hubei Province, China) ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add...

At the end of July Alan Greenspan published an Op Ed arguing that tighter financial regulation and capital standards will lead to the accum...

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These bills are worth more as a souvenir (5 USD) than when they were legal tender. Below are 10 and 5 billions. --------------------------...

This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We d...

For what is worth, the Switzerland and Geneva series appear to be cointegrated. Such a long-run relationhsip suggests that either rest of Sw...

The results of his civil service exams infuriate Keynes. He writes to Strachey: "I have done worst in the only two subjects of which I ...

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Therefore, the total impact includes a journal's impact on many disciplines other than economics. For many purposes this may be an entir...

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issue makes me uncomfortable within myself, takes me off my high moral perch when I talk (or lecture) to others about poverty, and it is an...

Il debito pubblico si differenzia da quello privato, per la mancanza di una procedura ben definita per punire uno stato che non ripaga i deb...

My piece (with Eduardo Borensztein) on the costs of default: here ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add to de...

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My (joint with Marc Flandreau and Norbert Gaillard) new piece on VOX The global crisis is frequently compared to the Great Depression and th...

Eduardo Borensztein and Ugo Panizza counts as many as 257 sovereign defaults between 1824 and 2004. Between 1981 and 1990 alone, there were ...

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