Author/Editor: Udaibir S. Das, Michael G Papaioannou, Christoph Trebesch.

Release Date:August, 2012

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of pertinent issues on sovereign debt restructurings, based on a newly constructed database. This is the first complete dataset of sovereign restructuring more...

Author/Editor: Udaibir S Das, Michael G Papaioannou, Christoph Trebesch.

Release Date:January, 2010

Top down spillovers of sovereign default risk can have serious consequences for the private sector in emerging markets. This paper analyzes the effects of these spillovers using firm-level data more...

Author/Editor: Christoph Trebesch.

Release Date:February, 2009

This paper proposes a new empirical measure of cooperative versus conflictual crisis resolution following sovereign default and debt distress. The index of government coerciveness is presented as a more...