Trade Interdependence, the International Financial Institutions, and the Recent Evolution of Sovereign-Debt Renegotiations

Title: Trade Interdependence, the International Financial Institutions, and the Recent Evolution of Sovereign-Debt Renegotiations
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: October 2002
Published In: Journal of International Economics
Description:

This paper analyzes the effect of a debtor country’s pattern of trade with commercial creditors’ home countries on the outcome of debt-rescheduling negotiations. The analysis reveals that a debtor country with more market power has greater leverage in a three-way debt-rescheduling negotiation that includes the debtor country, its creditors and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs). The paper also considers the effects of the IFI sovereign-debt policy on the bargaining power of the parties in debt-rescheduling negotiations. Two bargaining frameworks analyzed and compared in the paper represent the negotiation mechanism at different stages of the IFI sovereign-debt policy evolution.

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Citation:

Klimenko, Mikhail M. "Trade Interdependence, the International Financial Institutions, and the Recent Evolution of Sovereign-Debt Renegotiations." Journal of International Economics 58.1 (2002):  177-209.

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