'Rules of Thumb' for Sovereign Debt Crises /

This paper contains an empirical investigation of the set of economic and political conditions that are associated with a likely occurrence of a sovereign debt crisis. We use a new statistical approach (Binary Recursive Tree) that allows us to derive a collection of "rules of thumb" that h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roubini, Nouriel
Other Authors: Manasse, Paolo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/042
Online Access:Full text available on IMF