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Eurozone Sovereign Debt Restructuring: promising legal prospects?

Eurozone Sovereign Debt Restructuring: promising legal prospects?

144/2013 Marcus Miller and Dania Thomas
culture and development, working papers
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grt039

144/2013 Marcus Miller and Dania Thomas

The Eurozone debt crisis has stimulated lively debate on mechanisms for sovereign debt restructuring. The immediate threat of exit and the breakup of the currency union may have abated; but the problem of dealing with significant debt overhang remains. After considering two broad approaches - institutional versus contractual – we look at a hybrid solution that combines the best of both. In addition to debt contracts with Collective Action Clauses, this includes a key amendment to the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism, together with innovative state-contingent contracts and a Special Purpose Vehicle to market them.

Culture and Development

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grt039