European University Institute, September 8, 2020

The IMF projected for 2020 public debt relative to GDP would go up by 13.3% in the Euro Area and 13.1% worldwide. On the path to recovery from the euro area crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU’s sovereign debt markets crashed and suffered damages as never before.

• Captioned Recording
• Readout
• Research Papers
  • “Sovereign Debt Maturity Structure and its Costs”, Flavia Corneli, Senior Economist, Bank of Italy
  •  “Debt Crises Fast and Slow”, Giancarlo Corsetti and Seung Hyun Maeng, University of Cambridge
  • “The Bright Side of the Doom Loop: Banks Exposure and Default Incentives“, Dominik Thaler, Research Economist, Bank of Spain