Interest rates fell sharply after Mexico's Brady deal, and private investment and growth recovered. The authors show that the main benefit of debt relief was not to lower expected payments but to reduce...
Before 1988, "orthodox" policies (fiscal discipline and tight money) failed to bring inflation down and induce a sustained economic recovery. The Mexican stabilization plan announced in December 1987 (the...
A key factor behind high real interest rates during the recent Mexican stabilization plan was the initially low credibility about the fixed, and later on preannounced, exchange rate. While it is difficult...
Voluntary debt reduction schemes (VDR), such as debt-equity swaps (DES) or collateralized debt conversions (CDC), are bound to play a relevant role in the foreign debt strategy of highly indebted countries...
This paper formulates a multisectoral accounting framework to assess the potential effects on perceived private wealth of alternative schemes for voluntary debt reduction. Swaps of private equity for public...