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Sovereign Debt Defaults and Financing Needs

By Miguel Messmacher, Mark Kruger

March 1, 2004

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Miguel Messmacher, and Mark Kruger. Sovereign Debt Defaults and Financing Needs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed December 22, 2024
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Summary

We construct a financial vulnerability indicator that is consistent with the theoretical literature on determinants of defaults. It is based on the amount of new foreign financing that is needed to avoid a default or an import adjustment, expressed as a proportion of the country's sources of foreign currency. As the need for new foreign financing increases, so does a country's financial vulnerability. The indicator has a higher correlation with default episodes than other indicators used in previous studies. In addition, the level at which it leads to a high probability of default is comparable across countries.

Subject: Debt default, Debt service, Exports, External debt, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector risk, International trade, Public debt

Keywords: Current account, Debt burden, Debt default, Debt indicator, Debt service, Debt service increase, Debt sustainability, Debt-restructuring agreement, Default probability, Early warning indicators, Exports, Financial crisis, Financial sector risk, Growth rate, Probability of default, Sovereign debt defaults, Standard deviation, Threshold probability, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    33

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2004/053

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0532004

  • ISBN:

    9781451847413

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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