Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Panacea or Pangloss? / Jeremy I. Bulow, Kenneth Rogoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulow, Jeremy I.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Rogoff, Kenneth.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2637.

NBER working paper series no. w2637

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Sovereign Debt Restructurings

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1988.

Summary:

The most widely proposed LDC debt plans are flawed by their failure to recognize the fundamental differences between corporate and sovereign debt. Consequently, many plans intended to help highly-indebted countries mainly aid their foreign creditors. This paper emphasizes the crucial distinction between marginal and average sovereign debt. This distinction provides the cornerstone for an understanding of debt buybacks, debt-equity swaps, and debt-for-debt swaps involving new classes of seniority. Highly indebted countries would benefit more from direct transfers than from the same resources spent on any of these financial engineering schemes.

Notes:

Print version record

June 1988.