International Commodity Price Shocks, Democracy, and External Debt /
We examine the effects that international commodity price shocks have on external debt using panel data for a world sample of 93 countries spanning the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that positive commodity price shocks lead to a significant reduction in the level of external debt in democrac...
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Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2010.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2010/053 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |