Uncertainty Premia, Sovereign Default Risk, and State-Contingent Debt /

We analyze how concerns for model misspecification on the part of international lenders affect the desirability of issuing state-contingent debt instruments in a standard sovereign default model a la Eaton and Gersovitz (1981). We show that for the commonly used threshold state-contingent bond struc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roch, Francisco
Other Authors: Roldan, Francisco
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/076
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