(Geneva time), Online conference
Day 4 of the Distributed Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference (D-DebtCon2020)
The Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development (CFD) organises Day 4 of D-DebtCon 2020 on 10 September 2020. This session focuses on Sovereign Debt in Financial History.
This event is part of D-DebtCon 2020, a larger conference which takes place from 7-18 September 2020 and is organised by ten different universities from around the world. On each of the 10 conference days, one of the partners organises a session on a debt-related topic. The D-DebtCon full programme may be found here.
Sovereign Debt in Financial History (The Graduate Institute Geneva)
Policy session (16:00-17:00 Geneva)
Chair: Nathan Sussman (The Graduate Institute Geneva)
Edwin M. Truman (Peterson Institute for International Economics), "Lessons from the 1980s for Sovereign Debt Relief in the Global Pandemic"
Discussants: Elena L. Daly (Global Sovereign Advisory), Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute) and Mark Walker (Guggenheim Partners)
Academic session (17:15-19:00 Geneva)
Chair: Rui Esteves (The Graduate Institute Geneva)
Simon Hinrichsen (LSE), "The Iraq Sovereign Debt Restructuring".
Download paper "The Iraq Sovereign Debt Restructuring" (PDF, 815 KB)
Download the slides of Simon Hinrichsen's presentation (PDF, 371 KB)
Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford), "Apocalypse Now" in Latin America: New Evidence on Banks' Strategies and Central Bank Preparation for the 1982 Sovereign Debt Crisis"
Nathan Sussman (The Graduate Institute Geneva), "When Reputation is Not Enough – The Great Default of the London Corporation in 1683"
Download the slides of Nathan Sussman's presentation (PDF, 1.34 MB)