Assessing the appropriate size of relief in sovereign debt restructuring

This paper offers a principles based approach for assessing the appropriate size of debt relief in sovereign debt restructuring initiatives. We show how to calculate the amount of debt relief that restores sustainability with high probability subject to the satisfaction of sovereign debt restructuri...

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Autores principales: Guzmán, Martín, Lombardi, Domenico
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Publicado: Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET) 2022
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spelling I28-R145-2437_oai2026-02-09 Guzmán, Martín Lombardi, Domenico 2022-11-25 This paper offers a principles based approach for assessing the appropriate size of debt relief in sovereign debt restructuring initiatives. We show how to calculate the amount of debt relief that restores sustainability with high probability subject to the satisfaction of sovereign debt restructuring principles. The amount of debt relief is deemed appropriate if it leads to trajectories of economically and politically feasible fixed points for the primary surplus to GDP ratio that satisfy the government’s intertemporal budget constraint in a “high” percent of possible future states of nature. Economic feasibility is defined by natural economic constraints, and political feasibility is defined by the constraints imposed by the restructuring principles. We also provide evidence that shows that sovereign debt restructuring episodes since 1970 have been often followed by subsequent restructurings or defaults shortly afterwards, suggesting that relief amounts to date may have been ‘too little. Este trabajo presenta un enfoque basado en principios para computar la quita de deuda apropriada en procesos de reestructuración de deuda soberana. Se muestra cómo calcular el monto de reducción de deuda que restaura la condición de sosteniblidad con alta probabilidad bajo la premisa de satisfacer un conjunto de restricciones impuestas por los principios que se siguen en el proceso de reestructuración. El tamaño de la quita se considera apropiado si conduce a la existencia de trayectorias de superávits fiscales primarios como ratio del PIB que son puntos fijos económica y políticamente factibles, y que satisfacen la restricción intertemporal de prespuesto del gobierno en un porcentaje “alto” de los posibles estados de la naturaleza. La factibilidad económica se define a partir de restricciones económicas, y la factibilidad política se define en función de las restricciones que imponen los principios de la reestructuración. También se muestra que desde 1970 los procesos de reestructuración soberana han sido seguidos poco tiempo después por una nueva reestructuración o default en un porcentaje alto de casos, lo que sugiere que el alivio de deuda se ha dado en la forma de “demasiado poco”. application/pdf https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2437 eng Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET) https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2437/3185 Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política; Núm. 26 (2018): Documento de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política UBA CONICET; 1-37 Working Papers series at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política; No. 26 (2018): Working paper of Interdisciplinary Institute of Political Economy of Buenos Aires UBA CONICET; 1-37 2451-5728 Deuda soberana Sostenibilidad Reestructuración Sovereign Debt Sustainability Restructuring Assessing the appropriate size of relief in sovereign debt restructuring Evaluación del tamaño adecuado del alivio en la reestructuración de la deuda soberana info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=dociiep&d=2437_oai
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topic Deuda soberana
Sostenibilidad
Reestructuración
Sovereign Debt
Sustainability
Restructuring
spellingShingle Deuda soberana
Sostenibilidad
Reestructuración
Sovereign Debt
Sustainability
Restructuring
Guzmán, Martín
Lombardi, Domenico
Assessing the appropriate size of relief in sovereign debt restructuring
topic_facet Deuda soberana
Sostenibilidad
Reestructuración
Sovereign Debt
Sustainability
Restructuring
description This paper offers a principles based approach for assessing the appropriate size of debt relief in sovereign debt restructuring initiatives. We show how to calculate the amount of debt relief that restores sustainability with high probability subject to the satisfaction of sovereign debt restructuring principles. The amount of debt relief is deemed appropriate if it leads to trajectories of economically and politically feasible fixed points for the primary surplus to GDP ratio that satisfy the government’s intertemporal budget constraint in a “high” percent of possible future states of nature. Economic feasibility is defined by natural economic constraints, and political feasibility is defined by the constraints imposed by the restructuring principles. We also provide evidence that shows that sovereign debt restructuring episodes since 1970 have been often followed by subsequent restructurings or defaults shortly afterwards, suggesting that relief amounts to date may have been ‘too little.
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