Sound and efficient external debt sustainability is an essential instrument to shred the notoriety of indebtedness and to ameliorate economic growth. This study was conducted with an objective to examine the determinants of foreign debt sustainability in Ethiopia using a yearly time series data...

This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that applying insurance theory is useful. We model risk neutral agents choosing portfolios of government bonds of n countries in a monetary union and other assets. We firstly analyse a...

Debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries have increased substantially in recent years. Since 2013, median government debt has risen by about 20 percentage points of gross domestic product and increasingly comes from non-concessional and private sources. As a result, in most low-income...

Die Internationale Schuldenkrise ist nicht nur ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches, sondern auch ein sozialethisches Thema, das insbesondere von der Kampagne "Erlassjahr 2000" in den letzten Jahren wieder in das Blickfeld des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt wurde. Zentrale Forderungen der...