Forty Years of Leverage: What Have We Learned About Sovereign Debt?
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Boone, Peter; Johnson, Simon
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Financial crises frequently increase public sector borrowing and threaten some form of sovereign debt crisis. Until recently, high income countries were thought to have become less vulnerable to severe banking crises that have lasting negative effects on growth. Since 2007, crises and attempted reforms in the United States and Europe indicate that advanced countries remain acutely vulnerable. Best practice from developing country experience suggests that regulatory constraints on the financial sector should be strengthened, but this is hard to do in countries where finance has a great deal of political power and cultural prestige, and where leverage is already high.
Date issued
2014-05Department
Sloan School of ManagementJournal
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Citation
Boone, Peter, and Simon Johnson. “Forty Years of Leverage: What Have We Learned About Sovereign Debt?.” American Economic Review 104, no. 5 (May 2014): 266–271. © 2014 American Economic Association
Version: Final published version
ISSN
0002-8282
1944-7981