Sovereign Risk and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
225
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C32, E32
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper investigates the impact of sovereign risk on the stochastic rational expectations equilibrium of a pure exchange small open economy. International borrowing and lending arise from the interaction between a risk averse sovereign representative a