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Indexed Sovereign Debt: An Applied Framework

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  • Horacio Sapriza

    (Rutgers University)

  • Filippo Taddei

    (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

  • Guido Sandleris

    (Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

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the state of the economy, they also feature thresholds of the chosen real variable that trigger payments. We argue that the latter are typically suboptimal.

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  • Horacio Sapriza & Filippo Taddei & Guido Sandleris, 2008. "Indexed Sovereign Debt: An Applied Framework," 2008 Meeting Papers 1064, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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