Debt Seniority and Sovereign Debt Crises /

Is the seniority structure of sovereign debt neutral for a government's decision between defaulting and raising surpluses? In this paper, we address this question using a model of debt crises where a discretionary government endogenously chooses distortionary taxation and whether to apply an op...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ari, Anil
Other Authors: Corsetti, Giancarlo, Dedola, Luca
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/104
Online Access:Full text available on IMF