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Managing High Public Debt in Euro-Area Countries: Financial Repression as Fiscal Insurance?

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  • Ad van Riet

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This article gives a narrative account of the main standard and nonstandard public-debt management tactics that euro-area governments applied during the sovereign-debt crisis. To secure market liquidity, they inter alia targeted public-debt supply more at residents and often also sought to create a captive domestic demand for sovereign bonds. Where fiscal solvency was impaired, they arranged a "voluntary" debt restructuring, pressed official creditors for debt forgiveness, or considered imposing a haircut on official-sector claims. This cross-country analysis indicates the return of financial repression as fiscal insurance against government funding stress and a public-debt overhang.

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  • Ad van Riet, 2020. "Managing High Public Debt in Euro-Area Countries: Financial Repression as Fiscal Insurance?," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 76(1), pages 57-99.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:doi:10.1628/fa-2019-0016
    DOI: 10.1628/fa-2019-0016
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    1. Cornand, Camille & Gandré, Pauline & Gimet, Céline, 2016. "Increase in home bias in the Eurozone debt crisis: The role of domestic shocks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 445-469.
    2. van Riet, Ad, 2015. "Market-preserving fiscal federalism in the European Monetary Union," MPRA Paper 77772, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Beck, Roland & Reinhardt, Dennis & Rebillard, Cyril & Ramos-Tallada, Julio & Peeters, Jolanda & Paternò, Francesco & Wörz, Julia & Beirne, John & Weissenseel, Lisa, 2015. "The side effects of national financial sector policies: framing the debate on financial protectionism," Occasional Paper Series 166, European Central Bank.
    4. Norkina, O. & Pekarski, S., 2015. "Nonmarket Debt Placement As Financial Repression," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, vol. 28(4), pages 31-55.

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    Keywords

    Euro-area crisis; public-debt management; fiscal sustainability; financial re-pression; fiscal insurance; financial repression;
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    JEL classification:

    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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