Donor Herding and Domestic Debt Crisis /

This paper presents a new model based on the loan-pushing model by Basu (1991) to show how a domestic debt crisis can occur in a low-income country following donor herding. The model focuses on the rational herding behavior of donors due to payoff and information externalities. Although there are ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chirwa, Ephraim
Other Authors: Khamfula, Yohane Anthony, Mlachila, Montfort
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/109
Online Access:Full text available on IMF