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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807487403321

Autore

Alichi Ali

Titolo

A Model of Sovereign Debt in Democracies / / Ali Alichi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-4167-5

9786612841033

1-282-84103-3

1-4519-9737-X

1-4518-7010-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/152

Disciplina

336.340151954

Soggetti

Debts, Public - Econometric models

Capital market - Econometric models

Exports and Imports

Finance: General

Insurance

Public Finance

Industries: Financial Services

Insurance Companies

Actuarial Studies

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

International Lending and Debt Problems

Insurance & actuarial studies

Finance

Public finance & taxation

International economics

Public debt

Insurance companies

International capital markets

Debt default



Debts, Public

Capital market

Debts, External

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Relevant Literature and Our Contribution -- III. The Model -- Theoretical Model -- A. Insurance Contracts -- B. Definition of Default -- C. Sequence of Events -- D. The Foreign Insurer -- E. The Country -- The Voting Process -- The Turn-Out Rate -- The Old Voters -- The Young Voters -- F. Contract Concepts -- Default-Free Contract -- Default-Free Contract for Quadratic Preferences -- Default-Repayment Contract -- Comparison of Contract Conditions -- Default-Renegotiation Contract -- G. Income Heterogeneity and Changes in Population Mixture -- IV. Empirical Results -- A. List of Countries -- B. Proofs.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper develops and empirically tests a political economy model of sovereign debt. The main incentive for repaying sovereign debt is to maintain access to international capital markets. However, in a democracy, one generation may choose default regardless of its consequences for future generations. An old generation with little concern for its country's access to capital markets can force a default on debt if it has the majority of voters. On the other hand, if the younger generation is more numerous, it can force repayment of previously defaulted debt. Other voter heterogeneities, such as in income, can generate similar results.