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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

   Default Risk of Advanced Economies: An Empirical Analysis of Credit Default Swaps during the Financial Crisis

   Dieckmann and Plank · European Finance Review · 2011

   The paper studies European sovereign credit default swap prices during the financial crisis and links their rise to the health of national and world financial systems.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's results suggest markets price in expected bailouts of banks, so financial-sector risk shifts into governments' credit default swap prices.“Our results suggest the presence of a private-to-public risk transfer through which market participants incorporate their expectations about financial industry bailouts.”

2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Short-run and long-run effects of public debt on economic performance: Evidence from EMU countries

   Gómez‐Puig and Sosvilla‐Rivero · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2015

   The paper estimates how public debt relates to economic performance in central and peripheral euro-area countries over 1960-2012, separating short-run from long-run effects.

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   1. UncheckedIn EMU countries, public debt tends to be linked to weaker long-run economic performance, though its short-run effect may be positive in some cases.“Our findings tend to support the view that the level of public debt always has a negative impact on the long-run performance of EMU countries, whilst its short-run effect may be positive in some specific cases.”