Debt, debt relief, and growth : a bargaining approach

This report compares and identifies two ways that Governments can " up-front " the adjustment effort: accumulating reserves; and engaging in an equity swap. The authors compare these methods with a constant rescheduling agreement which assumes that no reserves can be accumulated and that t...

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Main Author: Cohen, Daniel
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Verdier, Thierry
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 1991
Series:Policy, research, and external affairs working papers no. WPS 762
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505 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework of analysis -- 3. Characterization of the memoriless subgame perfect equilibrium -- 4. The role of reserves -- 5. Debt relief and debt equity swaps -- Appendix 1: Existence and uniqueness of the stationary subgame perfect equilibrium -- Appendix 2: Proof of proposition 2 -- Appendix 3: Proof of proposition 3 -- References. 
520 |a This report compares and identifies two ways that Governments can " up-front " the adjustment effort: accumulating reserves; and engaging in an equity swap. The authors compare these methods with a constant rescheduling agreement which assumes that no reserves can be accumulated and that tax collections go to the creditors. The paper analyzes the outcome of a " memoryless " rescheduling agreement. The model exhibits two potential Laffer curves effects. In one, the lenders would want to reduce the vulnerability of the debtor to their sanctions (that is, required taxation). In the other, the debtor would actually prefer less growth than more. The role of reserves is studied and it is determined that their use can improve a country ' s welfare, over the case of the rescheduling agreement. The country must, however, be able to commit itself to a tax rate before negotiations start. Otherwise, reserves are useless. Debt-equity swaps are also studied. The outcome - always Pareto - dominates the outcome of the rescheduling equilibrium. Banks always gain a fraction of the country ' s capital above the share of output that they gain in the rescheduling equilibrium. Thus, banks are relatively less " impatient " than the country to reach a debt-relief agreement. 
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