Investment in most heavily indebted countries has been weak since 1982. The widely accepted debt overhang proposition interprets the investment drop as a moral hazard problem: a heavy debt burden raises the incentive to consume, because the marginal benefit of investment would go to the creditor. This paper develops several hypotheses on optimal reactions of a credit-constrained debtor country on an increase in debt, on variations in the credit constraint, on changes in interest rates, and contrasts these with the predictions stemming from the debt overhang proposition. Empirical specifications of conventional investment functions and consumption functions (along the Permanent Income Hypothesis) lead to reject the debt overhang proposition,...
From the early 1990s and onwards the use of debt relief as a method of providing development assista...
The price of debt on the secondary market reflects the risk that the debtor country might default on...
We introduce long-term debt (and a maturity choice) into a standard model of firm financing and inve...
We revisit the debt overhang question. We first use non-parametric techniques to isolate a panel of ...
We revisit the debt overhang question. We \u85rst use non-parametric techniques to iso-late a panel ...
Much of the recent discussion on the debt crisis has focused on liquidity constraints and investment...
The emergence of the international debt crisis in the 1980s is typically explained through exogenous...
Investment and financial restraint Typically, conventional econometrics fails to highlight a causal...
Investment and financial restraint Typically, conventional econometrics fails to highlight a causal...
We show, in a reasonably general model, that if a highly indebted country has good investment projec...
To solve the puzzle of attitudes toward debt buybacks, the authors use a model that combines conside...
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of grace periods in the context of an overhang of externa...
This study utilizes a two-period model of international borrowing and lending to spell out a detaile...
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPCI) and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (...
This paper shows that concerted debt reduction may be welfare-improving even when the investment dis...
From the early 1990s and onwards the use of debt relief as a method of providing development assista...
The price of debt on the secondary market reflects the risk that the debtor country might default on...
We introduce long-term debt (and a maturity choice) into a standard model of firm financing and inve...
We revisit the debt overhang question. We first use non-parametric techniques to isolate a panel of ...
We revisit the debt overhang question. We \u85rst use non-parametric techniques to iso-late a panel ...
Much of the recent discussion on the debt crisis has focused on liquidity constraints and investment...
The emergence of the international debt crisis in the 1980s is typically explained through exogenous...
Investment and financial restraint Typically, conventional econometrics fails to highlight a causal...
Investment and financial restraint Typically, conventional econometrics fails to highlight a causal...
We show, in a reasonably general model, that if a highly indebted country has good investment projec...
To solve the puzzle of attitudes toward debt buybacks, the authors use a model that combines conside...
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of grace periods in the context of an overhang of externa...
This study utilizes a two-period model of international borrowing and lending to spell out a detaile...
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPCI) and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (...
This paper shows that concerted debt reduction may be welfare-improving even when the investment dis...
From the early 1990s and onwards the use of debt relief as a method of providing development assista...
The price of debt on the secondary market reflects the risk that the debtor country might default on...
We introduce long-term debt (and a maturity choice) into a standard model of firm financing and inve...