Appendix to "Financial Crises and Political Crises"

PBE Type i: Neither default nor political crisis If V ≤ χL, the costs of default are always larger than the costs of servicing the debt even for the benevolent government. Then in equilibrium, the government proposes to service the debt, which is accepted by the representative agent. Hence the debt is repaid and political crisis is avoided. Neither the benevolent government nor the self interested government has any incentive to propose default, regardless of whether such an announcement results in dismissal. In turn, the representative agent cannot possibly gain from dismissing the policymaker.