Imbs, Jean; Ranciere, Romain - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2006
We revisit the debt overhang question. We first use non-parametric techniques to isolate a panel of countries on the downward sloping section of a debt Laffer curve. In particular, overhang countries are ones where a threshold level of debt is reached in sample, beyond which (initial) debt ends...