For multiple decades, activists have sought to institute an international legal regime that limits the ability of despotic governments to borrow money and then shift those obligations onto more democratic successor governments. Our goal in this article is to raise the possibility of an alternate...

Although inflation-linked bonds have many advantages, nominal bonds are the most important instrument to finance public debts throughout the world. One explanation that the literature has offered is that nominal bonds make countercyclical monetary policies more effective. This paper reconsiders...

Obligations are debt securities from the private sector or the government to the public, both domestic and international, with an imbalance of coupons or discounts and principal repayments of more than one year. Coupons are fixed rate or floating rate or a combination of fixed rate and floating rate