Fiscal policy and the output costs of sovereign default

Author(s)
Leyre Gomez-Oliveros Duran, Stefan Niemann, Paul Pichler
Abstract

We introduce fiscal policy into a sovereign debt model with endogenous default costs and examine the implications for the determination of the output costs of default. We find that the quantitative properties of the output costs of default, and their dependence on primitives such as the elasticity of labor supply, are distinctly different depending on the margin of fiscal adjustment. The consideration of fiscal policy thus has potentially important implications for the quantitative properties of models of sovereign debt and default.

Organisation(s)
Department of Economics
External organisation(s)
European Commission, University of Essex
Journal
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
Volume
20
No. of pages
11
ISSN
2194-6116
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2017-0236
Publication date
12-2019
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
502018 Macroeconomics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Economics and Econometrics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/fiscal-policy-and-the-output-costs-of-sovereign-default(60c01cfc-c68e-4b76-b3d8-303bac2023e4).html