Including daily time fixed effects, as we do in column (6), to absorb the positive trend in sovereign spreads and macro variables during the pandemic, reduces the magnitude of the estimated elasticity, but it remains marginally statistically significant. 4 However, as we show in the next section, these specifications mask the important cross-country differences in fiscal capacity for explaining the dependence between a country’s credit risk and economic shocks. 5.2.
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