Limits to foreign lending would cut bail-out risks, Banque de France paper claims

Paper examines why countries bail each other out

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Capital controls to stop investors in ‘core' countries lending into ‘peripheral' economies would limit the need for a bail-out, countering the ‘implicit guarantee' that encourages such risky lending, according to a new working paper published by the Banque de France.

In International bailouts: why did banks' collective bet lead Europe to rescue Greece?, Eric Mengus of the Toulouse School of Economics deploys a two-country model to investigate the incentives that lead one country to take charge

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