Some Options for Addressing Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Problems

Hunter Clark, Andrew Haughwout and James Orr

No 20151103, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Puerto Rico’s economic and fiscal challenges have been an important focus of work done here at the New York Fed, resulting in two reports (2012 and 2014), several blog posts and one paper in our Current Issues series in just the last few years. As the Commonwealth’s problems have deepened, the Obama administration and Congress have begun discussing potential approaches to addressing them. In this post, we update our previous estimates of Puerto Rico’s outstanding debt and discuss the effect that various forms of bankruptcy protection might have on the Commonwealth.

Keywords: bankruptcy; Puerto Rico; debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11-03
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