This article surveys the literature on sovereign debt sustainability from its origins in the mid-1980s to the present, focusing on four debates. First, the shift from an "accounting based" view of debt sustainability, evaluated using government borrowing rates, to a "model based" view which uses...

In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the weight assigned to the lenders' interest by the borrowing government at the time of...

According to the results of H1 2018, the growth rates of revenues of consolidated budgets of constituent entities of the Russian Federation largely exceeded the current level of the rate of inflation, so, at year-end most regional and local budgets can expect growth in their real incomes. A...