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Official lending in the euro area: Lessons for debt sustainability

Giancarlo Corsetti, Aitor Erce, Timothy Uy, (2019), “Official lending in the euro area: Lessons for debt sustainability “, 13 Φεβρουαρίου, VoxEU

During the euro area crisis, management of official loan maturities emerged as a critical item in the discussion on which instruments and strategies are most effective at ensuring debt sustainability. Using a theoretical model calibrated to Portugal and cross-country data, this column shows that lengthening loan maturities and managing debt repayment flows has substantial effects on sustainability. It also unveils a key policy trade-off in official lending between increasing the amount of safe debt (immune from rollover risk) and strengthening the incentive to default in response to negative shocks to fundamentals.

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