Haircuts: Estimating investor losses in sovereign debt restructurings, 1998-2005

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 780-805

  Sturzenegger, Federico ^a   Zettelmeyer, Jeromin ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Debt restructuring; Financial crises; Recovery values; Sovereign debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649151303     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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