Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Schuldenverhandlungen von Entwicklungsländern, die in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise einer Vermittlung unterliegen. Ausgehend von dem Indonesischen Schuldenabkommen von 1970, das durch H. J. Abs vermittelt wurde, wird der Schritt zur Spieltheorie...

This paper argues that the development of a regime for sovereign debt workouts has created an asymmetry between the rights and interests of sovereign lenders and those of the population of a debtor state. It first analyzes the impact of sovereign debt workouts on human rights. Subsequently, it...

The contractual approach proposes the introduction of clauses in sovereign debt contracts to address a number of inefficiencies in sovereign debt markets. Two of its central innovations are collective action clauses and seniority clauses. This paper analyses these two clauses when: (1) repayment...

How do oil price movements affect sovereign spreads in an oil-dependent economy? I develop a stochastic general equilibrium model of an economy exposed to co-moving oil price and output processes, with endogenous sovereign default risk. The model explains a large proportion of business cycle...