En los años veinte del siglo XIX, Colombia, entonces Gran Colombia, fue el mayor deudor internacional. En los siguientes cien años su acceso al mercado internacional de capitales fue mínimo, y su historia financiera estuvo marcada por sucesivas renegociaciones con sus antiguos acreedores....

Yazıda vurgulanan bazı noktalar şunlardır: Hazinenin kullanmakta olduğu Kamu Net Borç Stoku kavramı, Kamunun gerçek borçluluğunu, AB tanımlı Genel Yönetim Nominal Borç Stoku kavramına kıyasla daha iyi yansıtmaktadır. Diğer taraftan TCMB borcu brüt kamu borcu içinde yer...

In this paper we provide a reviewt of the evolution of Argentinean foreign debt in the long run and the macroeconomic policies that contributed to its emergence. In particular, we focus on what exactly happened in the nineties in Argentina. We analyze the evolution of the public sector’s...

We use partisan and opportunistic political business cycle (“PBC”) considerations to develop and test a framework for explaining election-period changes in credit spreads for developing country sovereign bonds. Pre-election bond spread trends are significantly linked both to the partisan...

We use partisan and opportunistic political business cycle (“PBC”) considerations to develop a framework for explaining election-period decisions by credit rating agencies (“agencies”) publishing developing country sovereign risk-ratings (“ratings”). We test six hypotheses derived...

We show that the imputation of reinvested profits of the subsidiaries of foreign firms as a debit item on a host country's balance of payments account tends to overstate the current account deficit. We also show that, because of the workings of the FDI financial life cycle, this phenomenon is...

Hoheitliche Länderrisiken im hier beschriebenen Sinne sind bankbetriebliche Risiken, die im internationalen Kreditgeschaet durch die Zahlungsunfähigkeit oder -unwilligkeit der ausländischen Regierung entstehen. Länderrisiko-Analysen untersuchen folglich die Frage nach der Bonität eines...

The relation between IMF conditionality and country ownership of assistance programs is considered from a political economy perspective, focusing on the question of why conditionality is needed if it is in a country’s best interests to undertake the reform program. It is argued that...

This Paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors want to deter default by debtors, or because trade finance dries up after default. To estimate the...

Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation....