Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52478 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3604
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
A main puzzle in the sovereign debt literature is that defaults have only minor effects on subsequent borrowing costs and access to credit. This paper comes to a different conclusion. We construct the first complete database of investor losses (haircuts) in all restructurings with foreign banks and bondholders from 1970 until 2010, covering 180 cases in 68 countries. We then show that restructurings involving higher haircuts are associated with significantly higher subsequent bond yield spreads and longer periods of capital market exclusion. The results cast doubt on the widespread belief that credit markets forgive and forget.
Subjects: 
sovereign debt crises
restructuring
reputation
JEL: 
F34
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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