Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt CrisesM. Aguiar, Satyajit Chatterjee, Harold Cole and Zachary Stangebye () Chapter Chapter 21 in Handbook of Macroeconomics, 2016, vol. 2, pp 1697-1755 from Elsevier Abstract: This chapter is on quantitative models of sovereign debt crises in emerging economies. We interpret debt crises broadly to cover all of the major problems a country can experience while trying to issue new debt, including default, sharp increases in the spread and failed auctions. We examine the spreads on sovereign debt of 20 emerging market economies since 1993 and document the extent to which fluctuations in spreads are driven by country-specific fundamentals, common latent factors and observed global factors. Our findings motivate quantitative models of debt and default with the following features: (i) trend stationary or stochastic growth, (ii) risk averse competitive lenders, (iii) a strategic repayment/borrowing decision, (iv) multiperiod debt, (v) a default penalty that includes both a reputation loss and a physical output loss, and (vi) rollover defaults. For the quantitative evaluation of the model, we focus on Mexico and carefully discuss the successes and weaknesses of various versions of the model. We close with some thoughts on useful directions for future research. Keywords: Quantitative models; Emerging markets; Stochastic trend; Capital flows; Rollover crises; Debt sustainability; Risk premia; Default risk; D52; F34; E13; G15; H63 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:macchp:v2-1697 DOI: 10.1016/bs.hesmac.2016.04.005 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Handbook of Macroeconomics from Elsevier |
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