Fiscal austerity is a thing of the past. However, in its just-released Regional Economic Outlook for Europe the IMF stressed that, without a credible and sustainable strategy to ensure fiscal sustainability, ballooning budget deficits will increase solvency risk. This means that government bond yield spreads are likely to come under upward pressure and yield curves might steepen, especially in some euro-zone countries.
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