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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155201903321

Autore

Asonuma Tamon

Titolo

Trade Costs of Sovereign Debt Restructurings : : Does a Market-Friendly Approach Improve the Outcome? / / Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Akira Sasahara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

9781475553956

1475553951

9781475553994

1475553994

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (58 pages) : illustrations

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamonMarcos

SasaharaAkira

Soggetti

International trade - Costs

Debts, External

Exports and Imports

Financial Risk Management

Foreign Exchange

Empirical Studies of Trade

International Lending and Debt Problems

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Trade: General

International economics

Finance

Currency

Foreign exchange

Debt restructuring

Exports

Imports

Real exchange rates

Exchange rate arrangements

Asset and liability management

International trade

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Sovereign debt restructurings have been shown to influence the dynamics of imports and exports. This paper shows that the impact can vary substantially depending on whether the restructuring takes place preemptively without missing payments to creditors, or whether it takes place after a default has occurred. We document that countries with post-default restructurings experience on average: (i) a more severe and protracted decline in imports, (ii) a larger fall in exports, and (iii) a sharper and more prolonged decline in both GDP, investment and real exchange rate than preemptive cases. These stylized facts are confirmed by panel regressions and local projection estimates, and a range of robustness checks including for the endogeneity of the restructuring strategy. Our findings suggest that a country’s choice of how to go about restructuring its debt can have major implications for the costs it incurs from restructuring.