Private External Overborrowing in Undistorted Economies: Market Failure and Optimal Policy
IADB Working Paper No. 369
Posted: 1 Mar 2001
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Private External Overborrowing in Undistorted Economies: Market Failure and Optimal Policy
IDB Working Paper No. 305
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 20 Apr 2011
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Date Written: March 1998
Abstract
An undistorted free market economy endowed with perfectly rational and informed agents overborrows, i.e., borrows beyond the efficient level, because of the agents' failure to internalize credit rationing resulting from sovereign risk. It follows that the elimination of the market overborrowing will not cure private overborrowing. This paper explores the possibilities of economic policy as a remedy to the problem.
JEL Classification: F34, G15, E44, O16
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Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo and Lombardo, Davide, Private External Overborrowing in Undistorted Economies: Market Failure and Optimal Policy (March 1998). IADB Working Paper No. 369, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=237449
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