Sovereign defaulters: Do international capital markets punish them?

Miguel Fuentes () and Diego Saravia ()

Journal of Development Economics, 2010, vol. 91, issue 2, 336-347

Abstract: We empirically study whether countries that default on their debt experience a reduction in their capital inflows, as suggested by the literature. Our data contain information on (i) the defaulter countries and their creditors and (ii) bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. With these we can study how FDI flows are affected by sovereign default by distinguishing between those flows coming from defaulters' creditor countries and others. According to our estimations, this distinction is crucial since the decline of FDI in flows after default is markedly concentrated on those flows originating in defaulters' creditor countries. The decay in FDI flows is higher in the years closer to the default date and for countries that have defaulted more times. We do not find evidence that countries shut their doors to defaulters' investment abroad, which is also a cost of default suggested in the literature.

Keywords: Sovereign; default; Sovereign; debt; Foreign; direct; investment; Debt; repayment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Working Paper: Sovereing Defaulters: Do International Capital Markets Punish Them? (2009)
Working Paper: Sovereign Defaulters: Do International Capital Markets Punish Them? (2006)
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