The aim of this paper is to obtain empirical evidence about the influence of the public debt externalities of the central and regional governments have on the credit rating of the Spanish Autonomous Communities. The analysis was done by estimating an ordered probit model from panel data for the...

This paper discusses the negative effect that inheritances, gifts or lotteries (which usually can be thought of as fortuitous profits) have on labor participation. This effect is also known in the literature as the Carnegie hypothesis. In order to analyze this effect, this paper considers women...

English Abstract: There is a growing consensus that Venezuela will not be able to persist for much longer with its policy of full external debt service. The social costs are just too great. This implies a debt restructuring of some kind. Venezuela, principally through its state-owned oil...

English Abstract: The pari passu fallacy, first uncloaked in 2000, holds that when a sovereign borrower promises to maintain the equal ranking of a debt with the borrower's other senior indebtedness, it thereby implicitly promises to pay all of those debts on a ratable basis. In its 18-year life...

Spanish Abstract: En los años recientes, las crisis derivadas de deudas públicas han recibido mucha atención desde el punto de vista de la política pública internacional, pero todavía está pendiente la maduración de una efectiva solución legal a los defaults soberanos dentro del derecho...

Los créditos del Fondo de Ayuda al Desarrollo (FAD) son el instrumento español de ayuda al desarrollo de forma ligada. Esta práctica está sometida a la “paradoja del enriquecimiento del donante”, pues se fomentan sus exportaciones al obligar al país receptor a devolver el crédito...