We model sovereign debt in the absence of a bankruptcy code. Threat of trade sanctions and seizure of exports by the lenders are the drivers of enforcement of sovereign debt contracts.The borrower takes these potential actions into account when choosing optimal voluntary default and debt capacity. We obtain a closedform solution for the sovereign yield spreads that depend on the costs of sancti...

We examine the relation between firms' debt maturity structures and the propensity to manage earnings. Our results indicate that (i) firms with more current debt are more susceptible to managing earnings, (ii) this relation is stronger for firms facing debt market constraints (those without investment grade debt) and (iii) auditor characteristics such as auditor quality and tenure help diminish...

This paper uses yearly panel data on OECD countries to analyze the relationship between growth and the cyclicality of government debt. We develop new time-varying estimates of the cyclicality of public debt. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: (i) less procyclical public debt growth can have significantly positive effects on productivity growth, in particular when financial developm...

I 1 . The debtor groups and the movement of debt ratios . . . . . . . 159 A . The debtor groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 B . Recent trade developments for the debtor groups . . . . . . 160 C . The evolution of debt ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Ill . Developing country-OECD linkages and the debt model . . . . . . 166 A . The debt model . . . . . . . . . . ....

We study fiscal and monetary policy in a monetary union with the potential for rollover crises in sovereign debt markets. Member-country fiscal authorities lack commitment to repay their debt and choose fiscal policy independently. A common monetary authority chooses inflation for the union, also without commitment. We first describe the existence of a fiscal externality that arises in the pres...

We examine the impact of explicitly incorporating a measure of debt capacity in recent tests of competing theories of capital structure. Our main results are that if external funds are required, in the absence of debt capacity concerns, debt appears to be preferred to equity. Concerns over debt capacity largely explain the use of new external equity financing by publicly traded firms. Finally, ...

This research examines whether temporal orientation moderates the impact of compulsive buying tendencies (CBT) on credit card debt. Participants completed the consideration of future consequences scale, a compulsive buying scale, and reported their credit card debt. Results revealed that CBT mediated the relationship between concern with immediate consequences and credit card debt, and high con...

This Appendix contains an overview of debt collection technologies in the U.S. and its recent evolution. In the first section we summarize how debt is collected in the U.S. Section 2 focuses on collection technology and its recent evolution. The last section describes the data sources used in the analysis. 1 Overview of the Debt Collection Process in the US We briefly describe the debt collecti...

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of previous studies by highlighting the interaction between debt servicing and the other fiscal variables. This model...

Using staggered changes to debt contract enforcement costs in India, we estimate it’s causal effect on financing and asset maturity. A reduction in enforcement costs is associated with an increase in long-term debt and a decrease in short-term debt and trade-credit. The increase in debt maturity is confined to firms that borrow from multiple and diverse set of lenders and to smaller firms. Firm...