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Ayres, João +3 more
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Reputation and Sovereign Default [PDF]
This paper presents a continuous‐time model of sovereign debt. In it, a relatively impatient sovereign government's hidden type switches back and forth between a commitment type, which cannot default, and an opportunistic type, which can, and where we assume outside lenders have particular beliefs regarding how a commitment type should borrow for any ...
Amador, Manuel, Phelan, Christopher
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Optimal Sovereign Default [PDF]
When is it optimal for a fully committed government to default on its legal repayment obligations? Considering a small open economy with domestic production risk and noncontingent government debt, we show that it is ex ante optimal to occasionally deviate from the legal repayment obligation and to repay debt only partially.
Klaus Adam, Michael Grill
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Sovereign Defaults in Court [PDF]
Abstract For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset covering four decades, we find that creditor lawsuits have become an increasingly common feature of sovereign debt markets.
Schumacher, Julian +2 more
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Belize’s 2016–17 Sovereign Debt Restructuring – Third Time Lucky?
This paper examines the causes, process, and outcome of Belize’s 2016–17 sovereign debt restructuring – its third episode in last 10 years. As was the case in the earlier two restructurings, in 2006–07 and in 2012–13, the 2016–17 debt restructuring was ...
Tamon Asonuma +3 more
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Risk Management, Expectations and Global Finance
What impact do past experiences have on the expectation formation of banks? This article analyses the risk management of Germany’s largest bank during the 1970 and 1980s.
Nützenadel Alexander
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Does Debt Have Threshold Effects on Medium-Term Growth? Evidence from European Union Countries
Debt has become an important factor in economic activity and its extent has incentivized many researchers to incorporate it into contemporary growth models. On the positive side, debt has the ability to smoothen private consumption, firms’ investment and
Fir Nejc
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CURRENT PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC DEBT AND SOVEREIGN DEFAULTS TO THE EU COUNTRIES
Today the threat of sovereign defaults is relevant and severe enough not only to developing but also to developed countries. In the first half of the 1980s, the global crisis of emerging markets external debt demonstrated for the first time that the debt
E. A. Zvonova
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Selective Sovereign Defaults [PDF]
Breaches in intercreditor equity are common ground during sovereign debt restructurings. In this paper I explore residence-based breaches by studying patterns of discrimination between residents and foreign creditors during debt restructurings. I frame the analysis with a simple model of a government's strategic decision to differentiate between the ...
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Sovereign Debt Restructurings in Grenada: Causes, Processes, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned
This paper documents the two debt restructurings that Grenada undertook in 2004–06 and 2013–15. Both restructurings emerged as a consequence of weak fiscal and debt situations, which became unsustainable soon after external shocks hit the ...
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