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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788415503321

Autore

Kletzer Kenneth

Titolo

International Financial Integration, Sovereignty, and Constraints on Macroeconomic Policies / / Kenneth Kletzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-9521-X

1-4527-7234-7

1-283-51189-4

9786613824349

1-4519-0874-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (26 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

International finance

Sovereignty

Financial Risk Management

Inflation

Investments: Bonds

Public Finance

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Price Level

Deflation

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Public finance & taxation

Finance

Investment & securities

Macroeconomics

Public debt

Debt limits

Bonds

Expenditure

Debts, Public

Prices

Expenditures, Public



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper considers the consequences of international financial market integration for national fiscal and monetary policies that derive from the absence of an international sovereign authority to define and enforce contractual obligations across borders. The sovereign immunity of national governments serves as a fundamental constraint on international finance and is used to derive intertemporal budget constraints for sovereign nations and their governments. It is shown that the appropriate debt limit for a country allows for state-contingent repayment. With noncontingent debt instruments, debt renegotiation occurs in equilibrium with positive probability. A model of tax smoothing is adopted to show how information imperfections lead to conventional bond contracts that are renegotiated when a critical level of indebtedness is reached. Renegotiation is interpreted in terms of nominal and real denominated bonds, and implications are drawn about the intertemporal borrowing constraint for monetary policies, the accumulation of reserve assets, and current account sustainability.