The sustainability of European external debt: what have we learned?
The sustainability of European external debt: what have we learned?
In this paper we aim to analyze the level of sustainability of external debt and, more importantly, how it has changed for a number of European economies. Given the severity of the crisis since 2008, we argue that the path of external debt burdens may have changed since the start of the crisis, given the concerns about debt accumulation in most countries. We analyze the reaction of present debt accumulation to past debt stock, incorporating the possibility of endogenously determined structural breaks in this reaction function. We find that structural breaks happen in most cases after 2008, highlighting the importance of the policy measures taken by most governments.
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Cuestas, Juan Carlos
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Gil-Alana, Luis A.
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Regis, Paulo José
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Cuestas, Juan Carlos
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Gil-Alana, Luis A.
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Regis, Paulo José
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Cuestas, Juan Carlos, Gil-Alana, Luis A. and Regis, Paulo José
(2015)
The sustainability of European external debt: what have we learned?
Review of International Economics, 23 (3), .
(doi:10.1111/roie.12175).
Abstract
In this paper we aim to analyze the level of sustainability of external debt and, more importantly, how it has changed for a number of European economies. Given the severity of the crisis since 2008, we argue that the path of external debt burdens may have changed since the start of the crisis, given the concerns about debt accumulation in most countries. We analyze the reaction of present debt accumulation to past debt stock, incorporating the possibility of endogenously determined structural breaks in this reaction function. We find that structural breaks happen in most cases after 2008, highlighting the importance of the policy measures taken by most governments.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 27 March 2015
Published date: 1 August 2015
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