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Like Father Like Sons? The Cost of Sovereign Defaults in Reduced Credit to the Private Sector

Credit rationing

  • Like Father Like Sons? The Cost of Sovereign Defaults in Reduced Credit to the Private Sector

    We investigate the impact of sovereign defaults on the ability of the corporate sector in emerging nations to finance itself abroad. We test the hypothesis that sovereign defaults have a negative spillover onto the private sector through credit rationing. (…)