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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The Reluctant Defaulter: A Tale of High Government Debt |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper |
| Number | 17-39 |
| Date | 2018 |
| Abstract Text | We seek to account for the very high levels of public debt recently reached in many OECD countries. We do so by assuming that governments do their utmost to stave off default, which occurs only when a government fails to muster the funds needed for debt service. This distinguishes our work from existing work on sovereign debt, which has assumed that governments weigh the costs of debt service against those of default. The debt ratios we compute are quite close to prevailing levels: our baseline case has debt-to-GDP ratio slightly above 80%. |
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