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Has the Market Solved the Sovereign-Debt Crisis?

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  • Bowe, M.
  • Dean, J.W.

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Since the beginning of the developing-country debt crisi in mid-1982, economists have puzzled iver its origins. Why did market forces not dater creditors from lending and debtors from borrowing so very much more than could, in retrospect, be repaid? Moreover, once the crisis was under way, why were market forces apparently unable to resolve it on their own? Why was nonmarket intervention employed? Was such intervention rational on ex ante theoretical grounds? Was it justifiable on ex post empirical grounds?

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  • Bowe, M. & Dean, J.W., 1997. "Has the Market Solved the Sovereign-Debt Crisis?," Princeton Studies in International Economics 83, International Economics Section, Departement of Economics Princeton University,.
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    Keywords

    EXTERNAL FINANCING ; DEBT ; MACROECONOMICS;
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    JEL classification:

    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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