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Financial Statecraft: Government Choice of Debt Instruments

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  • B. Peter Rosendorff
  • Eric Arias
  • Layna Mosely

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We explore the diversity of means by which governments borrow – from commercial banks, sovereign bond issues, official bilateral creditors, and multilateral financial institutions. Although political economy scholars tend to analyze financing instruments in isolation from one another, governments make choices across borrowing instruments. Although these choices partly reflect governments’ macroeconomic profiles and country creditworthiness, […]

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  • B. Peter Rosendorff & Eric Arias & Layna Mosely, 2020. "Financial Statecraft: Government Choice of Debt Instruments," Working Papers 822, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:wpaper:822
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    1. Giselle Datz, 2021. "Ties that bind and blur: financialization and the evolution of sovereign debt as private contract," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 571-587, December.

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    Keywords

    COVID-19; Financial Accounting; Financial Markets; fiscal policy; government; public sector; South Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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