Servicing the public debt : the role of government’s behavior towards debt

This article presents a model in which haircuts on public debt may occur. My focus relies on the explanation and numerical exploration of multiple equilibria. Calvo (1988) first found multiple equilibrium interest rates due to investors’ self-fulfilling expectations of a partial default in a model w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monteiro, Ricardo Oliveira Alves (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/16609
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/16609