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Post-Pandemic Debt Sustainability in the EU/Euro Area

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti and Lorenzo Codogno (Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Post-Pandemic Debt Sustainability in the EU/Euro Area: This Time May (and should) Be Different". This column suggests that the implementation of The EU Recovery Plan could give a substantial boost to the economy and fiscal revenues under very conservative assumptions on multipliers.

Published on: Friday 18th September 2020

Tags:

COVID-19

Debt

Economy

EU

Theme: transmission


D-DebtCon Webinar

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti will be speaking at the D-DebtCon Webinar entitled ‘Sovereign Debt in the European Union’ on 8 September 2020 at 3.30PM CEST on ‘Debt Crises Fast and Slow’. See the Programme and Registration details.

Published on: Tuesday 1st September 2020

Tags:

COVID-19

Economy

Policy

Debt


CERF Best Student Paper Award

The Faculty and Cambridge-INET Institute would like to congratulate PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Cambridge-INET Scholarship student, Seung Hyun Maeng, who was one of just three students to win the CERF best student paper award for his paper "Debt Crises, Fast and Slow" (joint with Giancarlo Corsetti).

Published on: Friday 12th June 2020

Tags:

Debt Crises

Debt

Markets

Theme: transmission


Perpetual Bonds are not the Best Way to Finance the European Recovery Fund

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Aitor Erce and Antonio Garcia Pascual's article "Perpetual bonds are not the best way to finance the European Recovery Fund" has been featured by VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal. This column looks at the potential gains of using European borrowing and lending as two separate policy levers, instead of financing the ERF using joint perpetual debt.

Published on: Monday 18th May 2020

Tags:

COVID-19

Debt

EU

Policy

Theme: transmission


Debt and Macroeconomic Stabilization

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will deliver the 2019 Federico Caffè Lecture at Sapienza University of Rome on 18th and 19th December 2019. Prof Corsetti's lecture topic will be "Debt and Macroeconomic Stabilization".

Published on: Monday 16th December 2019

Tags:

Debt

Macroeconomics

Stability

Theme: transmission


IMF Annual Research Conference

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will speak at The International Monetary Fund's Twentieth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, which is being held at the IMF headquarters in Washington DC on 7th-8th November 2019. Prof. Corsetti's talk will be on his paper "Debt Sustainability and the Terms of Official Support", joint with Aitor Erce (European Investment Bank) and Timothy Uy (Deloitte).

Published on: Wednesday 6th November 2019

Tags:

Debt

Sustainability

Euro Crisis

Sovereign Debt

Theme: transmission


Debt Sustainability Assessments - The State of the Art

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti was invited to discuss "Debt Sustainability Assessments - The State of the Art" at the International Monetary Fund, by the IMF Strategy and Policy Review Department, on July 15th 2019.

Published on: Wednesday 17th July 2019

Tags:

Debt

Sustainability

European Parliament


Debt Sustainability and Debt Vulnerabilities

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will give a talk on Debt Sustainability and Debt Vulnerabilities at the distinguished Third Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference. This event is being hosted by the Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law, in Washington D.C., on 11th-12th April 2019.

Published on: Friday 12th April 2019

Tags:

Debt

Sustainability

Vulnerabilities

Sovereign Debt


Official Lending and Debt Sustainability in the Euro Area

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Aitor Erce and Timothy Uy have published an article for VOXeu titled "Official lending in the euro area: Lessons for debt sustainability", that looks at how lengthening loan maturities and managing debt repayment flows has substantial effects on sustainability.

Published on: Wednesday 13th February 2019

Tags:

EU

Debt

Sustainability

Global Crisis


Debt Sustainability Assessments

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti spoke at the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) on "Debt Sustainability Assessments: The state of the art". The seminar took place at the ESM premises, Luxembourg on January 25th 2019.

Published on: Tuesday 29th January 2019

Tags:

DSA

Debt

Sustainability

Global Crisis


Keynote Speech at Ridge Conference

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti's was the keynote speaker at the Ridge Conference in Montevideo, and debated "Capital flows, monetary and macroprudential policies, exchange rates, international reserve accumulation, sovereign debt and international spillovers"

Published on: Wednesday 9th January 2019

Tags:

Capital Flows

Exchange Rate

Monetary Policy

Debt


Debt Sustainability: The State of the Art

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti's debt sustainability report has been published by European Parliament. The landmark report highlights three critical areas limiting the effectiveness of current Debt Sustainability Assessments – liquidity risks, contagion risks and identification of debt limits – and sets out a plan for how the European assessment system can be reformed.

Published on: Monday 26th November 2018

Tags:

Debt

Sustainability

European Parliament


When is Debt a Drag on Economic Growth?

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's column "When is debt a drag on economic growth?" was published on the ERF Policy Portal. Click through to read his column on the ERF forum.

Published on: Thursday 5th April 2018

Tags:

Debt

Economic Growth


Prof. Corsetti to speak at the RFAs Research Seminar in Singapore

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will speak at the 1st Joint Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) Research Seminar (AMRO, ESM and FLAR) in Singapore, Sept 7th 2017, on "Official lending strategies during the euro area crisis" (joint paper with Aitor Erce and Timothy Uy).

Published on: Wednesday 6th September 2017

Tags:

Euro Crisis

Debt

Sustainability


Debt Sustainability and Lending Institutions

The Debt Sustainability and Lending Institutions conference will be held in the Cavonius Centre, Gonville and Caius College, on 2nd - 3rd of September 2016.

Event Date: Saturday 3rd September 2016

Tags:

Debt

Sustainability

Lending Institutions

Theme: transmission


Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti Interview: "Debt Dynamics"

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti was interviewed by Society for Economic Dynamics on "Debt Dynamics", for the April 2016 edition of their Economic Dynamics Newsletter.

Published on: Tuesday 10th May 2016

Tags:

Debt Dynamics

Debt

Economic Dynamics


Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti presented the Schumpeter Lecture

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti presented the Schumpeter Lecture on 'The Mystery of the Printing Press: Monetary Policy and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises', on 24th August 2015, at the 30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, in Mannheim.

Published on: Tuesday 8th September 2015

Tags:

Monetary Policy

Debt

Debt Crises


Prof. Corsetti Presents CEPR Report on Eurozone and Debt

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti is participating in the London presentation of the CEPR report 'A New Start for the Eurozone: Dealing with Debt'.

Published on: Thursday 23rd April 2015

Tags:

Debt

Eurozone

EU