Research Catalog

Title

Overcoming developing country debt crises / edited by Barry Herman, José Antonio Ocampo, and Shari Spiegel.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herman, Barry.
• Ocampo, José Antonio.
• Spiegel, Shari.

Description

xix, 511 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The Initiative for Policy Dialogue series

Uniform Title

Initiative for policy dialogue series.

Subjects

• Developing countries > Economic conditions
• Debts, External > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the case for a new international relief effort / Barry Herman, José Antonio Ocampo, and Shari Spiegel -- The analytical framework for debt policy. Sovereign debt : notes on theoretical frameworks and policy analyses / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Reasons for limited sovereign risk management and how to improve it / Stijn Claessens ; Is domestic debt the answer to debt crises? / Ugo Panizza -- Crisis experiences when most credits were private. The 1980s crisis in syndicated bank lending to sovereigns and the sequence of mechanisms to fix it / Luis jorge Garay Salamanca ; Excess returns on emerging market bonds and the framework for sovereign debt restructuring / Shari Spiegel ; The Russian Federation : from financial pariah to star reformer / Sergei Gorbunov ; The Argentinean debt : history, default, and restructuring / Mario Damill, Roberto Frenkel, and Martín Rapetti -- Crisis experiences when most credits were official. Paris club : intergovernmental relations in debt restructuring / Enrique Cosío-Pascal ; Ethiopian debt policy : the long road from Paris Club to the MDGs / Matthew Martin ; Human development advocacy for debt relief, aid, and governance / Henry Northover -- Political economy and institutional reform. The political economy of the SDRM / Brad Setser ; How CACs became boilerplate : governments in "market-based" change / Anna Gelpern and Mitu Gulati ; Why the code of conduct for resolving sovereign debt crises falls short / Barry Herman ; Taking stock of proposals for more ordered workouts / Jürgen Kaiser ; How to rethink sovereign bankruptcy : a new role for the IMF? / Patrick Bolton and David A. Skeel, Jr. -- Conclusion. Conclusion : towards a comprehensive sovereign bankruptcy regime / Barry Herman, José Antonio Ocampo, and Shari Spiegel.

ISBN

• 0199578788 (hbk.)
• 9780199578788 (hbk.)
• 0199578796 (pbk.)
• 9780199578795 (pbk.)

LCCN

40018011936

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries