Cole, Harold L.; Kehoe, Timothy J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 1996
This paper explores the extent to which the Mexican government's inability to roll over its debt during December 1994 … depends on the average length of maturity of government debt. Our analysis suggests that for a country, like Mexico, with a … very short maturity structure of debt, the crisis zone is large and includes levels of debt as low as that in Mexico before …