This paper explores the effects of official creditor subsidies to private lenders on loan pricing and credit availability. A two-period model is developed which includes a private lender, a sovereign borrower and an official creditor. The presence of credible sovereign collateral is shown to be...

The NML v Argentina decision brought to the surface two problems which are potentially present in any sovereign debt restructuring. First, how to deal with activist holdout bond creditors once the vast majority of bond creditors and the sovereign debtor have agreed a restructuring. Second, how...

We review the impact of the global financial crisis, and its spillovers into the sovereign sector of the euro area, on the international "rules of the game for dealing with sovereign debt crises. These rules rest on two main pillars. The most important is the IMF's lending framework (policies,...

We review the impact of the global financial crisis, and its consequences for the sovereign sector of the euro area, on the international “rules of the game” for dealing with sovereign debt crises. These rules rest on two main pillars. The most important is the IMF's lending framework...

Lack of support for the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) discussion at the IMF a decade ago has encouraged several debt NGOs to actively advance proposals for sovereign debt arbitration - a bankruptcy-type arbitral tribunal to handle sovereign debt disputes in a collective manner....