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Sovereign Debt: From Safety to Default $55.59 An intelligent analysis of the dangers, opportunities, and consequences of global sovereign debt Sovereign debt is growing internationally at a terrifying rate, as nations seek to prop up their collapsing economies. One only needs to look at the sovereign risk pressures faced by Greece, Spain, and Ireland to get an idea of how big this problem has become. Understanding this dilemma is now more important than ever, that's why Robert Kolb has compiled "Sovereign Debt." With this book as your guide, you'll gain a better perspective on the essential issues surrounding sovereign debt and default through discussions of national defaults, systemic risk, associated costs, and much more. Historical studies are also included to provide a realistic framework of reference. Contains up-to-date research and analysis on sovereign debt from today's leading practitioners and academics Details the dangers of defaults and their associated systemic risks Explores the past, present, and future of sovereign debt The repercussions of a national default are all-encompassing as global markets are intricately interwoven in the modern world. "Sovereign Debt" examines what it will take to overcome the challenges of this market and how you can deal with the uncertainty surrounding it. |
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Debt Sustainability: An Analysis of Recent Cross-Country Experience $12.47 After a sovereign debt restructuring, restoring the country's debt to a sustainable path is key to ensuring a credible and durable exit from the crisis. In recent years, a number of countries have restructured their sovereign liabilities, either following a default or preemptively, to avoid a default. This Occasional Paper takes stock of the experiences of some of these countries--Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Moldova, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, and Uruguay--with debt-restructuring operations, with a view to assessing the outcomes and whether debt sustainability has been restored. The emphasis of the study is on sovereign debt owed to private creditors. |
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Deficits, Debt and Default (Hardcover) $39.5 Description not available. |
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Ecuador $12.49 Rated: NASynopsis: In 2006 Rafael Correa was elected president of Ecuador. An educated economist, he came to politics with a mission to transform a country struggling under poverty and debt into a self-sufficient, social, independent, ecological and participative democracy. From the Yasuni Initiative, where the country would no longer rely on exploiting and the their natural oil resources, to the analyzing of the IMF debt structure, he has given Ecuadorians genuine reason to believe that a new type of government is possible. |
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Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises $52.99 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. The debt crises in emerging market countries over the past decade have given rise to renewed debate about crisis prevention and resolution. In "Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises," Federico Sturzenegger and Jeromin Zettelmeyer examine the facts, the economic theory, and the policy implications of sovereign debt crises. They present detailed case histories of the default and debt crises in seven emerging market countries between 1998 and 2005: Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Argentina, Moldova, and Uruguay. These accounts are framed with a comprehensive overview of the history, economics, and legal issues involved and a discussion from both domestic and international perspectives of the policy lessons that can be derived from these experiences. Sturzenegger and Zettelmeyer examine how each crisis developed, what the subsequent restructuring encompassed, and how investors and the defaulting country fared. They discuss the new theoretical thinking on sovereign debt and the ultimate costs entailed, for both debtor countries and private creditors. The policy debate is considered first from the perspective of policymakers in emerging market countries and then in terms of international financial architecture. The authors' surveys of legal and economic issues associated with debt crises, and of the crises themselves, are the most comprehensive to be found in the literature on sovereign debt and default, and their theoretical analysis is detailed and nuanced. The book will be a valuable resource for investors as well as for scholars and policymakers. |
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The Indebted Society Credit and Default $293.14 This book is about debt a situation which affects a large and growing number of people. In Britain alone in 1986 more than 2 million people were sued for debt in the county courts. But debt cannot be understood apart from credit, and the 1980s have seen a substantial increase in the amount of credit available. In The Indebted Society Janet Ford gives both an overview of the contemporary credit and debt society and a discussion of the borrowers experience and management of debt. As well as providing a critical examination of the growth and changing structure of credit provision, describing the social and economic base for such growth, and considering explanations for the emergence of default and contemporary attitudes to debt, she also presents a detailed study of forty households with mortgage arrears, placing these personal histories within the broader structure of a credit and debt society. Author: Ford, Janet Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 1988/10/06 Language: English Dimensions: 6.14 x 9.21 x 0.47 inches |
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Sovereign Default Risk Valuation $139 Past cycles of sovereign lending and default in emerging markets suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. This book shows why investors should reckon with similar credit events in the future. It is a useful toolkit for analyzing sovereign bonds and foreseeing trends in the international financial architecture. |
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Sovereign Debt Default and Financial Crisis in Argentina 2001 $24.39 Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Economics / Business: Political Economics, grade: 1,7, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Internationale Wirtschaft), course: Seminar on financial crisis, language: English, abstract: In order to understand the causes of the Argentine economic crisis one has at least to know something about the Plan Cavallo which was established in Argentina in the year 1991. At the end of the 1980s the country suffered from hyperinflation with prices increasing above 3000 percent per year. This currency crisis was accompanied by an accumulated decrease of GDP between 1988 and 1990 of about 10 percent. After several failed attempts to stop this development the newly appointed minister of economic affairs, Cavallo, established two laws which improved the situation. First, the Ley De Convertibilidad came into effect that fixed the exchange rate between the Argentine currency and the U.S. dollar. Second, the Ley de Carta Org nica del Banco Central emerged which obligated the central bank not to finance budget deficits anymore. These two laws became generally known as the Plan Cavallo. The incentive was to reestablish confidence in the sense that Argentina would not inflate away its domestic debt anymore.The Plan Cavallo operated very well until the crisis with respect to two macroeconomic quantities: On the one hand, the exchange rate was kept constant at a one-to-one level towards the U.S. dollar. On the other hand, the inflation rate declined from still 84 percent in the year 1991 to 1.6 percent in the year 1995. Since then it was kept between -1.8 and 0.7 percent until the year 2000. Furthermore, a lot of privatization took place in the first half of the 1990s and the whole decade was characterized by an increase of foreign direct investment above 500 percent. Altogether, Argentina was a star country in the perspective of international organizations.Nonetheless, there were some erroneous trends. First, there was a real reval |
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Default !!!: Escaping the Debt Trap and Avoiding Bankruptcy $19.45 No Synopsis Available |
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Measuring Corporate Default Risk $51.3 This book, based on the author's Clarendon Lectures in Finance, examines the empirical behavior of corporate default risk. A new and unified statistical methodology for default prediction, based on stochastic intensity modeling, is explained and implemented with data on U.S. public corporations since 1980. Special attention is given to the measurement of correlation of default risk across firms. The underlying work was developed in a series of collaborations over roughly the past decade with Sanjiv Das, Andreas Eckner, Guillaume Horel, Nikunj Kapadia, Leandro Saita, and Ke Wang. Where possible, the content based on methodology has been separated from the substantive empirical findings, in order to provide access to the latter for those less focused on the mathematical foundations. A key finding is that corporate defaults are more clustered in time than would be suggested by their exposure to observable common or correlated risk factors. The methodology allows for hidden sources of default correlation, which are particularly important to include when estimating the likelihood that a portfolio of corporate loans will suffer large default losses. The data also reveal that a substantial amount of power for predicting the default of a corporation can be obtained from the firm's "distance to default," a volatility-adjusted measure of leverage that is the basis of the theoretical models of corporate debt pricing of Black, Scholes, and Merton. The findings are particularly relevant in the aftermath of the financial crisis, which revealed a lack of attention to the proper modelling of correlation of default risk across firms. |
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Credit Default Swap $81.25 A credit default swap (CDS) is a swap contract in which the buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if a credit instrument (typically a bond or loan) goes into default (fails to pay). Less commonly, the credit event that triggers the payoff can be a company undergoing restructuring, bankruptcy, or even just having its credit rating downgraded. CDS contracts have been compared with insurance, because the buyer pays a premium and, in return, receives a sum of money if one of the events specified in the contract occurs. However, there are a number of differences between CDS and insurance, for example: The buyer of a CDS does not need to own the underlying security or other form of credit exposure; in fact the buyer does not even have to suffer a loss from the default event.In contrast, to purchase insurance, the insured is generally expected to have an insurable interest such as owning a debt obligation; the seller need not be a regulated entity; the seller is not required to maintain any reserves to pay off buyers, although major CDS dealers are subject to bank capital requirements. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2009/11/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.22 inches |
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The Debt $4.99 The Debt |
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Sovereign Debt $95 An intelligent analysis of the dangers, opportunities, and consequences of global sovereign debt Sovereign debt is growing internationally at a terrifying rate, as nations seek to prop up their collapsing economies. One only needs to look at the sovereign risk pressures faced by Greece, Spain, and Ireland to get an idea of how big this problem has become. Understanding this dilemma is now more important than ever, that's why Robert Kolb has compiled Sovereign Debt . With this book as your guide, you'll gain a better perspective on the essential issues surrounding sovereign debt and default through discussions of national defaults, systemic risk, associated costs, and much more. Historical studies are also included to provide a realistic framework of reference. Contains up-to-date research and analysis on sovereign debt from today's leading practitioners and academics Details the dangers of defaults and their associated systemic risks Explores the past, present, and future of sovereign debt The repercussions of a national default are all-encompassing as global markets are intricately interwoven in the modern world. Sovereign Debt examines what it will take to overcome the challenges of this market and how you can deal with the uncertainty surrounding it. |
Time for euro to replace dollar as the de-facto world reserve currency by Chehak Jain
The de-facto world reserve currency refers to a currency in which the majority of international transactions take place.
Since the time after the Second World War, the de facto world currency has been the United States dollar. During that war, the U.S. provided support, medical help and ammunitions to its allies, demanding gold payments in exchange. By then, the Bretton Woods agreement was established by which banks of issue were required to redeem their currency in gold bullion or in U.S. Dollar- which in turn were redeemable in gold bullion at the rate of $35/troy ounce (1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 g). After the war ended in 1945, bulk of the world's gold was lying in the U.S. vaults. Henceforth, the dollar became the undisputed global reserve currency. Some countries like Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama have gone a step further and eliminated their own currency in favour of U.S. Dollar.
The United States took advantage of this fact and printed dollars in huge quantity. It exported large chunks of dollars, paying for commodities, tax cuts, wars abroad, spies and politicians world over. This measure could not affect the inflation back home. It got it all for a free!! Outside U.S., 2/3rd of most of the reserves of the other countries is in U.S. dollars. In 1971, when some countries tried to sell their dollars in return for gold, U.S. defaulted on its payment and the Bretton Woods Agreement was smashed. To regain the trust of the world in the paper dollar, U.S. bullied OPEC to sell oil in dollars only. Now the countries had to keep the dollars to buy the much-needed oil. Oil replaced gold as the foundation to stop dollar from sinking.
But, in late 1999, Euro was established and months later, Iraq announced that thereafter it would sell oil in euros only. Then, the U.S. for obvious reasons invaded it. In 2004, Iran proposed the setting up of an oil bourse to sell oil in euros only. India and China have also supported this decision. It makes sense for Europe and Japan too, to buy and sell oil in euros as the euro is far more stable than the debt-ridden dollar.
The world would now have to start stalking up euros and sell back dollars. But the U.S. can't accept even 1/10th of the world's dollars as its economy would crash. What would happen to U.S. then? A re-run of Germany post 1929?
source : http://bizzfin.blogspot.com/
About the Author
Chehak is a student of business economics. She follows the business news quite regularly. For any query email her at chehakjain@gmail.com.
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