Growth, External Debt and Sovereign Risk in a Small Open Economy

Download or read book Growth, External Debt and Sovereign Risk in a Small Open Economy written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1989-06-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper constructs and analyzes an optimizing model of a highly-indebted small open economy. An important innovation in the model is the incorporation of sovereign risk through the specification of an upward-sloping foreign debt supply function. The model is used to examine the interaction between external debt and growth in response to various policies and exogenous disturbances. It is shown that structural policies intended to reduce the fiscal deficit or increase productivity can lead to tradeoffs in their effect on capital accumulation and the stock of debt.