Empirical Perspectives on Long-Term External Debt

Philip Lane

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2004, vol. 4, issue 1, 23

Abstract: In this paper, we paint a statistical portrait of the determination of external debt for a set of low- and middle-income countries. The goal is to facilitate thinking about the role played by international capital flows in the development process. Empirically, we find that external debt is strongly increasing in the level of initial output. This remains true even when we control for variation in productivity and creditworthiness. More open economies also are found to have higher debt levels.

Keywords: external debt; repudiation; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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