The stylised facts of currency crises in emerging markets include output contraction coming hard on the heels of devaluation, with a prominent role for the adverse balance-sheet effects of liability dollarisation. In the light of the South East Asian experience, we propose an eclectic blend of...

Using a irreversible investment model of oil development, this paper shows how a fiscal regime can be neutral in that decision to develop is not affect by tax and efficient in recouping economic rents where cumulated operating profits are taxed if and only if they surpass an appropriate level of...

The main motivation of this paper is to study the impact of the composition of creditors on the probability of default and the risk premium on sovereign bonds, when there is debtor moral hazard. In the absence of any legal enforcement, relational contracts work only when there are creditors who...