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We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or "haircuts". Our sample covers 327 sovereign debt restructurings with external private creditors over 205 default spells since 1815. Creditor losses vary widely (from none to 100%), but the...
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China’s lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China’s loans, also the associated defaults remain “hidden”, as missed payments and restructuring details are not disclosed. We construct an encompassing dataset of...
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holdout problem according to our simulations. The results help to inform theory as well as current policy initiatives on …
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holdout problem according to our simulations. The results help to inform theory as well as current policy initiatives on …
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liquidity support extended to crisis countries, including repeated rollovers of swaps coming due. The swaps bolster gross … reserves and are mostly drawn by distressed countries with low liquidity ratios. In addition, we show that Chinese state …
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How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing "lessons learned" in historical perspective. The crisis featured: (i) the return of debt problems to advanced economies; (ii) a bank-sovereign "doom-loop"...
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Compared with China's pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper … World Bank. These "hidden debts" distort policy surveillance, risk pricing, and debt sustainability analyses. Since China …
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Compared with China's dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and … understood. Over the past decades, China has exported record amounts of capital to the rest of the world. Many of these financial … flows are not reported to the IMF, the BIS or the World Bank. "Hidden debts" to China are especially significant for about …
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This paper is the first comprehensive analysis of the secured lending practices of Chinese creditors in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). We present a new dataset and detailed case studies of collateralized public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) loans from Chinese state-owned...
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holdout problem according to our simulations. The results help to inform theory as well as current policy initiatives on …
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