In this paper we aim to analyse the level of sustainability of external debt and, more importantly, how it has changed for a number of European economies. Given the severity of the crisis since 2008, we argue that the path of external debt burdens may have changed since the start of the crisis,...

According to AK growth models, permanent changes in investment rates have permanent effects on a country’s rate of economic growth. Jones (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, 110, 495-525) finds strong evidence against this prediction studying the time series properties of GDP growth rates...

This paper studies the design and valuation of debt contracts in a general dynamic setting under uncertainty. By incorporating some insight of the recent corporate finance literature into a valuation framework, we obtain a model which seems promising for the empirical study of pricing of risky...

This paper empirically compares a variety of firm-value-based models of contingent claims. We formulate a general model which takes the perpetual coupon bond models of Merton (1974), Leland (1994) and Anderson, Sundaresan and Tychon (1996), as well as some immediate generalizations thereof, as...