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Horacio Sapriza
Researcher at Federal Reserve System
Publications - 81
Citations - 2717
Horacio Sapriza is an academic researcher from Federal Reserve System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sovereign default & Debt. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 76 publications receiving 2440 citations. Previous affiliations of Horacio Sapriza include Rutgers University & Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
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Quantitative Models of Sovereign Default and the Threat of Financial Exclusion
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the assumption that countries can be punished with financial exclusion after a sovereign default was studied and the authors found that the presence of exclusion punishment is responsible for a high fraction of the sovereign debt that can be sustained in equilibrium, while the cyclical behavior of consumption, output, interest rate and net exports are not fundamentally different in the models with and without exclusion.
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International Evidence on Government Support and Risk Taking in the Banking Sector
TL;DR: This paper found that more government support is associated with more risk taking by banks, especially during the financial crisis (2009-10), and that restricting banks' range of activities ameliorated the moral hazard problem.
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The Economics of Sovereign Defaults
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the economic costs associated with a sovereign default episode and identify circumstances that are likely to lead to a default episode, and discuss how understanding sovereign defaults may help to account for distinctive economic features of emerging economies.
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Indexed Sovereign Debt: An Applied Framework
TL;DR: In this article, the optimal features of real indexed sovereign debt contracts in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium framework with incomplete markets are characterized and shown to be similar to an insurance contract, and a country can replicate it using existing instruments, in particular a combination of international reserves and GDP-indexed bonds.
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Sovereign Debt Crises
Ricardo Correa,Horacio Sapriza +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the transmission channels between sovereigns and banks, with a focus on the effect of sovereign distress on bank solvency and financing, and highlights the notable cost to the real economy of the close connection between sovereign debt crisis and banks.