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Tax credits for debt reduction

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  • Dooley, Michael P.
  • Helpman, Elhanan

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The incentives for domestic investment in debtor countries are influenced by the terms of their external obligations and by the system of taxation utilized to provide government revenue for debt payments. It is well known that existing debt contracts could be altered to improve the incentives for investment but this has proven difficult to accomplish, perhaps because individual creditors have incentives not to agree to such changes. In this paper we show that a simple tax credit scheme that can be implemented unilaterally by the debtor government can overcome at least some of the inefficiencies caused by existing debt contracts.
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  • Dooley, Michael P. & Helpman, Elhanan, 1992. "Tax credits for debt reduction," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(1-2), pages 165-177, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:inecon:v:32:y:1992:i:1-2:p:165-177
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    1. Amnon Levy, 1997. "Sovereign debt: Reputation, seizure and reputation," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 21(1), pages 69-79, March.
    2. Michael P. Dooley, 1994. "A Retrospective on the Debt Crisis," NBER Working Papers 4963, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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