Table of contents for Debt defaults and lessons from a decade of crises / Federico Sturzenegger, Jeromin Zettelmeyer.

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Preface	ii
PART I. History, Economics, and Law	
Chapter 1. Sovereign Defaults and Debt Restructurings: Historical Overview	
A. Boom-Bust Cycles, Defaults, and Reschedulings, 1820-2003	
B. Resolving Debt Crises	
Creditor Coordination	
The Content of Debt Restructuring Agreements	
The Role of the Official Sector	
C. How Investors Fared	
Chapter 2. The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Debt Crises: A Primer	
A. Basics	
Explaining Why Sovereign Debt Can Exist	
Explaining Sovereign Debt Structures in Emerging Markets	
B. The Causes of Debt Crises	
Debt Runs	
Balance Sheet Crises and Credit Constraints	
Overborrowing	
Empirical Evidence on the Causes of Debt Crises	
C. The Costs of Debt Crises	
Theory	
Empirical Evidence on the Costs of Default	
Can the Cost of Debt Crises Be Reduced?	
Chapter 3. Legal Issues in Sovereign Debt Restructuring	
A. Legal Characteristics of Sovereign Debt	
Principles Protecting Sovereign Debtors	
Governing Law	
Bond Contracts	
B. Experience with Legal Enforcement of Sovereign Debt Contracts	
Post-Restructuring Litigation and the ¿Holdout Problem¿
Pre-Restructuring Litigation and the ¿Rush to the Courthouse¿	
C. Can Domestic Insolvency Procedures Be Mimicked Through Sovereign 
Bond Contracts?	
PART II. The New Debt Crises, 1998-2005	
Introduction	
A. Debt Dynamics	
B. Debt Restructurings and ¿Haircuts¿	
Chapter 4. Russia	
A. The June-July 1998 Rescue Attempt	
B. Default and Devaluation	
C. Banking Crisis 	
D. Defaults on External Debt, and Debt Restructurings	
Chapter 5. Ukraine	
A. The Russian Crisis, and September Devaluation	
B. The Fall 1998 Debt Exchanges	
C. The August 1999 Exchange	
D. The 2000 Restructuring	
E. After the Exchange	
Chapter 6. Pakistan	
A. From the 1998 Crisis to the January 1999 Paris Club Deal	
B. The November 1999 Bond Exchange	
C. The 2001 Paris Club Deals and Beyond	
Chapter 7. Ecuador	
A. The 1998-99 Banking Crisis	
B. Default and Dollarization	
C. The 2000 Debt Exchange	
Chapter 8. Argentina	
A. Background	
B. The Crisis Begins	
C. The ¿Mega Swap¿	
D. The November 2001 ¿Phase 1¿ Exchange	
E. Default and Pesification	
F. From the ¿Dubai Guidelines¿ to the 2005 Debt Restructuring	
G. After the Exchange	
Chapter 9. Moldova	
Chapter 10. Uruguay	
A. The Banking Crisis	
B. The Debt Exchange	
C. After the Exchange	
Afterword: The Dominican Republic	
PART III. Policy	
Chapter 11. Debt Crises from the Perspective of an Emerging Market 
Economy Policymaker	
A. Policy Making During Tranquil Times	
Crisis Prevention	
Crisis Preparation	
B. The Policymaker Facing the Crisis	
To Fight or Not to Fight?	
Policy Making Under Pressure	
C. The Policymaker Who Implements the Default	
Keeping the Economy Going	
Working Out a Debt Deal	
Characteristics of the Debt to Be Issued	
Chapter 12. International Financial Architecture	
A. Two Views on Financial Architecture	
B. New Institutions and Institutional Reform	
A Crisis Insurance Fund	
Sovereign Bankruptcy Mechanisms	
International Crisis Lending with Prequalification	
An Emerging Market Debt Price Stabilization Fund	
C. Financial Innovation	
Indexation to Real Variables	
Contingent Reserves and Related Hedging Strategies	
Bond Covenants	
Local Currency Instruments	
D. Conclusions	
Appendix: Tools for the Analysis of Debt Problems	
A. Solvency and Liquidity Indicators	
B. Debt Dynamics Decompositions	
Debt Dynamics Based on a Dollar Debt Accumulation Equation	
Debt Dynamics Based on a Local Currency Debt Accumulation Equation	
C. Debt Sustainability Analysis	
The Basic Intertemporal Approach	
How Does a Devaluation Affect Debt Sustainability?	
Dealing with Uncertainty	
D. Estimating the Probability of Default Based on a Fixed Recovery Value	
Estimation Based on Sovereign Spreads	
Using Credit Default Swaps to Estimate Default Probabilities	
E. Estimating Recovery Values	
F. Estimating the Interest Cost Impact of Debt Restructurings	
References 450

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Debts, External -- Developing countries.
Debt relief -- Developing countries.
Developing countries -- Economic policy.