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Sovereign Risk : Constitutions Rule

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  • Kohlscheen, Emanuel

    (Department of Economics, University of Warwick)

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This paper models the executive’s choice of whether to reschedule external debt as the outcome of an intra-governmental negotiation process. The executive’s necessity of a confidence vote from the legislature is found to provide the rationale for why some democracies may not renegotiate their foreign obligations. Empirically, parliamentary democracies are indeed less prone to reschedule their foreign liabilities or accumulate arrears on them. Most of the democracies that have been able to significantly reduce their debt/GNP ratio without a ’credit incident’ were parliamentary. Moreover, countries with stronger political checks on the executive and lower executive turnover have a lower rescheduling propensity. These results suggest that North andWeingast’s account of the evolution of institutions in 17th century England gives substantial mileage in understanding the international debt markets in the contemporary developing world.

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Paper provided by University of Warwick, Department of Economics in its series The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) with number 731.

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Length: 51 pages
Date of creation: 2005
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