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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2023
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers No. 12
Verlag: 
Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, Helsinki
Zusammenfassung: 
After 2008, the Southern European economies suffered a strong and persistent increase in unemployment. Rising government bond spreads necessitated the implementation of austerity policies. Austerity, however, may increase unemployment. If workers lose human capital during unemployment spells, the economy's future production potential and thus the fiscal capacities to serve public debt will decline, aggravating a sovereign debt crisis. Debt renegotiations can help to avoid the costs of austerity. I introduce skill loss during unemployment in a dynamic stochastic model of sovereign debt with long-term debt and endogenous haircuts to study optimal fiscal policy in sovereign debt crises. In a quantitative exercise, I find that with higher intensity of the skill loss, ex ante, debt issuance declines and fiscal policy becomes less pro-cyclical. The government strategically uses fiscal capacities both to soften rising unemployment, reducing long-run productivity losses, and to support hiring when external conditions are more favorable.
Schlagwörter: 
sovereign debt
debt renegotiations
haircuts
unemployment
austerity
JEL: 
E44
E62
F34
F41
ISBN: 
978-952-7543-11-5
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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