Meyer, Josefin - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 6, pp. 45-51
Many sovereign defaults have occurred worldwide over the past 200 years. An analysis of 321 sovereign debt restructurings since 1815 shows that foreign private and institutional investor losses were 43 percent on average. Notably, beginning in the 1970s, several debt exchanges have increasingly...