Are the heavily indebted countries solvent?: Tests of intertemporal borrowing constraints
Are the heavily indebted countries solvent?: Tests of intertemporal borrowing constraints
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重债国家有偿付能力吗?:跨期借贷约束的检验
DOI:
10.1016/0304-3878(94)90036-1
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1994
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Y. Sawada
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Y. Sawada
This paper investigates whether the Heavily Indebted Countries (HICs), in consideration of their external debt repayments, remain solvent. Direct tests of the solvency condition derived from the usual intertemporal budget constraints shed light on the sustainability of their current policies. The findings are twofold. First, the HICs seem to have a debt overhang problem. Second, in East and Southeast Asian countries except Philippines, the solvency conditions are satisfied. These results give a rationale for the debt reduction plan (a.k.a. the Brady Plan) and the empirical support of the debt overhang hypothesis.