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Ghosal, Sayantan and Thampanishvong, Kannika (2005) Sovereign debt crisis: coordination, bargaining and moral hazard. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) (No.159).
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Abstract
We study the interaction between (a) inefficiencies in the post-default debtor-creditor bargaining game and (b) ex ante debtor moral hazard and excessive lending in sovereign debt markets. Conditional on default, selffulfilling debt crisis driven by creditor coordination failure exists and crisis risk is inefficiently high. Strengthening collective action clauses (CACs) has an ambiguous impact on crisis risk. Even with ex ante debtor moral hazard, crisis risk remains inefficiently high. Moreover, even without debtor moral hazard, excessive lending by creditors generates, endogenously, positive default probability. We establish the case for a formal sovereign bankruptcy procedure to complement the role of CACs.
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Debts, Public, Financial crises, Moral hazard, Debt relief | ||||
| Series Name: | Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) | ||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
| Official Date: | March 2005 | ||||
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| Number: | No.159 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 29 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
| Description: | Completed December 2004 |
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| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
| Grant number: | R000219236 (ESRC) |
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