Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance

Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that...
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Author: Odette Lienau
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Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance by Lienau, Odette

Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance

CHF 132.17

Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance

CHF 132.17
Author: Odette Lienau
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its loan obligations damages its reputation, inviting still greater problems down the road. Yet difficult dilemmas arise from this assumption. Should today's South Africa be responsible for apartheid-era debt? Is it reasonable to tether postwar Iraq with Saddam Hussein's excesses?

Rethinking Sovereign Debt is a probing historical analysis of how sovereign debt continuity--the rule that nations should repay loans even after a major regime change, or expect reputational consequences--became the consensus approach. Odette Lienau contends that the practice is not essential for functioning international capital markets, and demonstrates how it relies on ideas of absolutist government that have come under fire over the last century. Challenging previous accounts, Lienau incorporates a wealth of original research to argue that Soviet Russia's repudiation of Tsarist debt and Great Britain's 1923 arbitration with Costa Rica hint at the feasibility of selective debt cancellation. She traces the notion of debt continuity from the post-World War I era to the present, emphasizing the role of government officials, the World Bank, and private-market actors in shaping our existing framework.

Lienau calls on scholars and policymakers to recognize political choice and historical precedent in sovereign debt and reputation, in order to move beyond an impasse when a government is overthrown.



Author: Odette Lienau
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 02/18/2014
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780674725065

About the Author
Lienau, Odette: - Odette Lienau is Associate Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School.

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