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  "title": "A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles",
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  "summary": "Emerging markets business cycle models treat default risk as part of an exogenous interest rate on working capital, while sovereign default models treat income fluctuations as an exogenous endowment process with ad-noc default costs.",
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      "content": "- Proposes a general equilibrium model integrating both sovereign default and business cycles.\n- Some imported inputs require working capital financing.\n- Default on public and private obligations occurs simultaneously.\n- Efficiency loss arises when imported inputs are replaced by imperfect substitutes around default triggers."
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      "content": "- Subject: Debt default, External debt, Labor, Labor supply, Production, Public debt, Total factor productivity\n- Keywords: Africa, business cycles, country default, country risk, credit market, Debt default, debt ratio, default event, default frequency, default incentive, default probability, default punishment, Eastern Europe, external debt, Labor supply, result default, sensitivity analysis, Sovereign default, Total factor productivity, transmission mechanism, utility function, Western Europe, Western Hemisphere, working capital, WP\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp11166 — Introduction, Model, Calibration, and Quantitative Results\n  - wp11166 — Introduction, Model, Calibration, and Quantitative Results (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp11166 — Introduction, Model, Calibration, and Quantitative Results (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/a-general-equilibrium-model-of-sovereign-default-and-business-cycles-25043"
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    "Authors: Zhanwei Z. Yue, Enrique G. Mendoza",
    "Published: July 1, 2011",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781462302222.001",
    "Proposes a general equilibrium model integrating both sovereign default and business cycles.",
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    "Subject: Debt default, External debt, Labor, Labor supply, Production, Public debt, Total factor productivity",
    "Keywords: Africa, business cycles, country default, country risk, credit market, Debt default, debt ratio, default event, default frequency, default incentive, default probability, default punishment, Eastern Europe, external debt, Labor supply, result default, sensitivity analysis, Sovereign default, Total factor productivity, transmission mechanism, utility function, Western Europe, Western Hemisphere, working capital, WP",
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