Welfare gains of bailouts in a sovereign default model

Roberto Pancrazi, Hernán Seoane and Marija Vukotic

No 25/2019, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers from Bank of Finland

Abstract: We examine the welfare effects of bailouts in economies exposed to sovereign default risk. When a government of a small open economy requests a bailout from an international financial institution, it receives a non-defaultable loan of size G that comes with imposed debt limits. The government endogenously asks for the bailout during recessions and repays it when the economy recovers. Hence, the bailout acts as an imperfect state contingent asset that makes the economy better off. The bailout duration is endogenous and increases with its size. The bailout size creates non-trivial tradeoffs between receiving a larger amount of relatively cheap resources precisely in times of need on the one hand, and facing longer-lasting financial constraints and accumulated interest payments, on the other hand. We characterize and quantify these tradeoffs and document that welfare gains of bailouts are hump-shaped in the size of bailout loans.

JEL-codes: E44 F32 F34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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