Sovereign Debt -

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Résumé :
The last time global sovereign debt reached the level seen today was at the end of the Second World War, and this shaped a generation of economic policymaking. International institutions were transformed, country policies were often draconian and distortive, and many crises ensued. By the early 1970s, when debt fell back to pre-war levels, the world was radically different. It is likely that changes of a similar magnitude -for better and for worse - will play out over coming decades. Sovereign Debt: A Guide for Economists and Practitioners is an attempt to build some structure around the issues of sovereign debt to help guide economists, practitioners and policymakers through this complicated, but not intractable, subject. Sovereign Debt brings together some of the world's leading researchers and specialists in sovereign debt to cover a range of sub-disciplines within this vast topic. It explores debt management with debt sustainability...

Biographie:

• Introduction


• 1: Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Pedro Esteves and Kris James Mitchener: Public Debt through the Ages


• 2: Serkan Arslanalp, Wolfgang Bergthaler, Philip Stokoe and Alexander F. Tieman: Guide to Sovereign Debt Definitions and Composition


• 3: Antonio Fat?s, Atish R. Ghosh, Ugo Panizza, Andrea F. Presbitero: The Motive to Borrow


• 4: Xavier Debrun, Jonathan D. Ostry, Tim Willems, and Charles Wyplosz: Public Debt Sustainability


• 5: Thordur Jonasson, Michael G. Papaioannou, and Mike Williams: Debt Management


• 6: Tom Best, Oliver Bush, Luc Eyraud, and M. Belen Sbrancia: Reducing Debt Short of Default


• 7: Julianne Ams , Reza Baqir , Anna Gelpern and Christoph Trebesch: Sovereign Default


• 8: Lee Buchheit, Guillaume Chabert, Chanda DeLong, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer: The Restructuring Process


• 9: Hugh Bredenkamp, Ricardo Hausmann , Alex Pienkowski, and Carmen Reinhart: Challenges Ahead