Caselli, Francesca; Faralli, Matilde; Manasse, Paolo; … - 2021
. Colombia is typically regarded as the only large Latin American country that did not default in the 1980s. Using archival … research and formal econometric estimates of Colombia's probability of default, we show that in the early 1980s Colombia … the short to medium run, Colombia benefited from avoiding an explicit default. Specifically, we find that GDP growth in …