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Austerity
- We shed light on the function, properties and optimal size of austerity using the standard sovereign model augmented to include incomplete information about credit risk. Austerity is defined as the shortfall of consumption from the level desired by a country and supported by its repayment capacity. We find that austerity serves as a tool for securing a more favorable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral; and that low risk borrowers may favor more to less severe austerity. These findings imply that the amount of fresh funds obtained by a sovereign is not a reliable measure of austerity suffered; and that austerity may actually be associated with higher growth. Our analysis accommodates costly signalling for gaining credibility and also assigns a novel role to spending multipliers in the determination of optimal austerity.
| Verfasserangaben: | Harris Dellas, Dirk Niepelt |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-361379 |
| URL: | http://safe-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/editor_common/Research/Working_Paper/SAFE_WP_78.pdf |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Deutsch): | SAFE working paper series ; No. 78 |
| Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | SAFE working paper (78) |
| Verlag: | SAFE |
| Verlagsort: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Dokumentart: | Arbeitspapier |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 2014 |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2014 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 17.12.2014 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | austerity; credit rationing; default; growth; incomplete information; investment; pooling equilibrium; separating equilibrium |
| Ausgabe / Heft: | November 19, 2014 |
| Seitenzahl: | 31 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 352990090 |
| Institute: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF) | |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE) | |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
