An undistorted free market economy endowed with perfectly rational and informed agents overborrows, i.e., borrows beyond the efficient level, because of the agents' failure to internalize credit rationing resulting from sovereign risk. It follows that the elimination of the market overborrowing...

An undistorted free market economy endowed with perfectly rational and informed agents overborrows, i. e. , borrows beyond the efficient level, because of the agents` failure to internalize credit rationing resulting from sovereign risk. It follows that the elimination of the market...

This paper considers the implications of consumption and borrowing externalities in a small open economy framework. The former reflect the assumption that status conscious agents care about the relative consumption of imported goods, while the latter arise because agents do not take into account...