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...

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

The sovereign's intention to issue inflation-linked bonds (ILB) is to save money. More than 15 years' experience with this financial instrument in the United States and in several other countries has led to the conclusion that these bonds are costly and basically characterized by low liquidity...