We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries … cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing industries' growth rates covering 17 years. Net portfolio debt inflows are … negatively associated with growth during the mid 1990s. The magnitudes of the negative effect of surges in portfolio debt inflows …

Government guarantees of private debt deplete equity. The depletion is greatest during periods when the probability of … debt up to the limit the government permits. Declines in asset values raise debt in relation to asset values and thus … asset values to market. Less widely recognized is that guaranteed debt creates an incentive to pay equity out to owners …

shows how several ways in which the actual world of international lending departs from these conditions give both lenders … and borrowers ample reason to care whether nonperforming debts are restructured. One implication of the way in which debt … argument is moral hazard, but (unlike in much of the recent literature of emerging market debt problems) what is central here …

, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging …. Finally, the relationship between growth and short-term debt is nil before the crisis, and negative during the crisis …

This paper models a firm's rollover risk generated by conflict of interest between debt and equity holders. When the … firm faces losses in rolling over its maturing debt, its equity holders are willing to absorb the losses only if the option … value of keeping the firm alive justifies the cost of paying off the maturing debt. Our model shows that both deteriorating …