Hofman, Bert; Reisen, Helmut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1990
Investment in most heavily indebted countries has been weak since 1982. Several papers (Krugman, 1988; Corden, 1988; Sachs, 1989) have subsequently established the debt overhang proposition: the existence of a heavy debt burden reduces the incentive to invest.1 This proposition has given an important...