Default and Renegotiation of Latin American Foreign Bonds in the Interwar Period

Erika Jorgensen and Jeffrey Sachs

No 2636, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the patterns of defaults, renegotiations, and final settlements on foreign borrowing of several Latin American governments in the interwar period. One goal of the paper is to provide a detailed historical account of the borrowing and renegotiation experience of five Latin borrowers (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Peru). Another goal is to provide a quantitative assessment of the amount of debt relief that was implicit in the negotiated settlements of the defaults that were reached in the 1930s and 1940s. In general, the pattern of default and renegotiation resulted in substantial, though not complete, debt relief, in the sense of reducing the present value of debt repayments from the sovereign borrower to the bondholders.

Date: 1988-06
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Published as A Long Run Perspective on the Debt Crisis, B. Eichengreen and P. Lindert (eds) 1989

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